Lesley Manville Quotes
I do absolutely want to be around as long as possible. I tell my son: 'You do realise, I am going to live to 100.'
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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Liam Smith was a resilient fighter. He was tough, has a lot of heart. He thinks before he attacks.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.
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When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.
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I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
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It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.
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What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.
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Yet people who benefit from all this now viciously defy Westminster, purporting to act as though they were an elected government; people who spend their lives sponging on Westminster and British democracy and then systematically assault democratic methods. Who do these people think they are?
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Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
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Beulah, Peel me a grape.
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Randal can write one-liners again. Everyone is happy, and peace spreads over the whole Earth.
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To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.
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The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.
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Stories that can be told through language and words don't need to be filmed.
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Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?
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E! has just become a sad, sad place to live. They don't know what they're doing; they have no ideas... everything they do just is a failure.
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I do absolutely want to be around as long as possible. I tell my son: 'You do realise, I am going to live to 100.'
