Anna Friel Quotes
My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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A good leader must be fair.
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If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
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It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
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It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa – that's the story of my life!
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My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.
