Lois Wyse Quotes
Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
Quotes to Explore
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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This is the UFC. UFC has the best fighters in the world. That's it.
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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Of studie took he most cure and most hede. Noght o word spak he more than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence. Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
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Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
