Lynne Truss Quotes
What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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We should all love animals.
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Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.
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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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Athletes aren't allowed to have an opinion. It's tough. Athletes are evolving right in front of our eyes. You see athletes who are politicians, etc., and still, we're told to shut up and dribble.
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My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.
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What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
