Louise Rennison Quotes
When we did eventually get to the party - me walking next to Dad's Volvo driving at five miles an hour - I had a horrible time. Everyone laughed at first but then more or less ignored me. In a mood of defiant stuffed oliveness I did have a dance by myself but things kept crashing to the floor around me. The host asked if I would sit down. I had a go at that but it was useless. In the end I was at the gate for about an hour before Dad arrived.

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Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
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There are some people who have had no pay rises for a very long time, and, working in highly skilled and highly responsible roles and in the health services and education, they deserve to be properly remunerated.
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When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.
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Being on the ground in Mongolia and traveling with the horse culture and sleeping in yurts, I was able to pick up a lot of detail. But I brought in advisors to work with our horse master to make sure the fighting strategies both on the Chinese and Mongolian sides were very accurate.
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When we did eventually get to the party - me walking next to Dad's Volvo driving at five miles an hour - I had a horrible time. Everyone laughed at first but then more or less ignored me. In a mood of defiant stuffed oliveness I did have a dance by myself but things kept crashing to the floor around me. The host asked if I would sit down. I had a go at that but it was useless. In the end I was at the gate for about an hour before Dad arrived.