Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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There are many actors who'll make their living in other areas, and they'll say they don't like theatre. What they're saying is that they're afraid of theatre because they know it will separate those who can from those who can't.
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Users get unlimited 'WhatsApp'. We get happy users who don't have to worry about data. Carriers get people willing to sign up for data plans.
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I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.
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I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.
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I never gave up, and for that, I can be proud of myself.
