Lesley Manville Quotes
I've got two older sisters who I'm very close to. And my son's grown up with a big sense of family around him.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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My childhood was appalling.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
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I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.
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Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.
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People think it's so easy to make hamburgers. That consistent quality in so many restaurants, in that many parts of the world, is not an easy thing to do.
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I've got two older sisters who I'm very close to. And my son's grown up with a big sense of family around him.
