Barbara Castle Quotes
If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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I never was a very good singer.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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All gigs are good gigs. There's never a bad one. Everything have a reason behind it; you just got to find that reason.
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I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.
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Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
