P. D. James Quotes
A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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I really love peace and quiet.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.
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Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.
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A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
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I love apple juice.
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Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am - my friends get round me - we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories - and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I’ve been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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So much of 'Mudbound' is about man's relationship to the land and to the elements. It's about the desire for control and how powerless we are against nature. We always knew we would shoot widescreen as a means to isolate a body in the frame and to highlight our own insignificance.
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If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
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A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
