Maggie Smith Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.
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I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
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We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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I never courted that but it's nice when it's people you respect and they respect your work. It's thrilling.
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I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.
