Barbara Castle Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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I think twerking is overrated.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I wanted to be part of the Houston Astros when they become a good team. That was my motivation... I never had in my mind the idea of playing with any other teams.
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I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
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Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
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As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
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I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark...'
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I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.
