Anna Chancellor Quotes
There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.
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The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.
Frances O'Grady
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
Daniel Dennett
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
Edith Widder
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I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.
Jack Germond
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
Yves Saint Laurent
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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
Pat Robertson
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We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.
Rahul Gandhi
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A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
Jack Horner
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
Karen Armstrong
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
Adam Mansbach
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
P. J. Harvey
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
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'Winner' is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn't hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.
Rakul Preet Singh
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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
Zaha Hadid
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Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.
Usain Bolt
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
Pam Grier
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My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Rachel Bilson
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
Salman Rushdie
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I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
Uma Thurman
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I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What I really want to do is, first of all, get my music out to the world. And then I would really just like to reach other kids all over the world and tell them to believe in themselves and prove to people that you can do anything you want.
Neon Hitch
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You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.
Alicia Keys
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There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.
Anna Chancellor