Alan Ayckbourn Quotes
They've started this filthy floodlit cricket with cricketers wearing tin hats and advertisements for contraceptives on their boots.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.
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The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.
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I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.
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I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
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Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.
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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
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Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that." And I looked at my children and I said, "These are my poems, these are my stories."
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I often think it's comical
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No Such Thing as Bad Results.
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Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.
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I like to read and listen to music and go for walks and travel and see art. I enjoy cooking and eating and spending time with my family. I don't really find myself searching for things on the television very much.
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They've started this filthy floodlit cricket with cricketers wearing tin hats and advertisements for contraceptives on their boots.
