Barbara Castle Quotes
And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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I'm a character actor.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.
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I'm really bad at tests of any kind, so I'm bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when I'm under the gun, I just fail.
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The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
