Tuppence Middleton Quotes
My grandma used to call my mother 'Tuppence' as a term of affection, but she was worried when my parents actually put it on my birth certificate. She thought I might get bullied.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
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I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
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I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.
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New Horizons is a very high-tech, small, roughly 1,000-pound spacecraft with the most powerful battery of scientific instrumentation ever brought to bear on a first reconnaissance mission.
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Climbing, as my grandmother said, it's a pretty frivolous thing. She always wondered when I was going to get a real job. But climbing is a real job for me now, and I enjoy it. It's a gift that I'm able to do it, share adventure and motivation with people.
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My grandma used to call my mother 'Tuppence' as a term of affection, but she was worried when my parents actually put it on my birth certificate. She thought I might get bullied.
