Maggie Smith Quotes
People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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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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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
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I just can't read music.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in terms of natural resources and also ideas and intellectual property. We're kind of wilfully stupid a lot of the time, anti-intellectual.
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It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.
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You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
