Amy Hoggart Quotes

My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal.

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• It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Government

• The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Problem
  • Effort
  • Worth

• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

  

  Saadi
  • Great
  • Together
  • Single

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Trust

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
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• I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Going
  • Happen
  • Winner

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Tennis
  • McDonald

• I was rubbish at school.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Rubbish

• I am just one human being.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Human
  • Human being

• I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Live
  • Past
  • Earth

• There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Live
  • Adventure

• I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Friendship
  • Keep

• I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Lawyer

• I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Movie
  • Angel
  • Bike

• When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Opportunity
  • Realize
  • Top

• I like to wear what I feel good in, not what the latest trend is.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Good

• I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mother

• I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.

  

  Jimmy Carr
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch

• My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal.

  

  Amy Hoggart
  • Father
  • Cancer
  • June