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.
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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.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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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.
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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.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I was rubbish at school.
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I am just one human being.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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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.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
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A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.
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When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.
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The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.
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My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.
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Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.
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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.
