Angus Deaton Quotes
In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I think I need security.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.
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I always love the domineering, slightly wicked women on screen.
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People like me, like Karen Elson and Soo Joo, we're a very specific woman with a very specific look. I think that's also why we last longer. There's no one else like us.
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I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.
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I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.
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If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified.
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In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.
