Alison Weir Quotes
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.
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Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
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As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
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Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.
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Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.
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When I heard Billie Holiday's voice, Nina Simone's and Ella Fitzgerald's - there was something about their voices to me that was such a different texture than what I was used to listening to at the time. Hearing those jazz voices were so different, and I think I just gravitated toward it.
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For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.
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I still sleep with my baby blanket.
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Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It's what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.
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I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
