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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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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I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
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I have the unique distinction of being on the only Olympic team to lose without controversy, and the only Pan Am Games team to lose without controversy.
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Judi Dench, apart from the name and fame, is the most genuinely hilarious, sophisticated, and loving person I have known. And I mean all of that together at once. That's something.
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I think the first thing I consider is whether I like the script. Once that is done, the next thing I look for is my part in the movie. Many a times you come across good offers, but the part they are offering might not be challenging. So, I don't take up that film.
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Us Jews are nomadic people.
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I never gave up, and for that, I can be proud of myself.
