Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
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We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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I feel like the more I work on different songs and the more I work on my voice constantly... I always feel better after I post a cover. Even if it's doing the little 15 second covers, I'm working on my craft, and it's really good for me, and I feel good after I do it.
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When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.
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Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
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A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.
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And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
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Men’s pay paid women to love and nurture, to connect and feel. To be nurturer-connectors. In contrast, men received their pay by being some form of killer-protector. By becoming a human doing (a captain or a coal miner), not a human being (a person who feels happy or sad).
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Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.
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The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.
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The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.
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So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
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What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.
