Lucy Powell Quotes
People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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I just can't read music.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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People want you to fail.
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I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
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The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.
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Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.
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Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
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From the leg lamp to Ralphie's tongue getting stuck on a frozen pole to that BB-gun incident, 'A Christmas Story' has left its mark on all our brains, so much so that it sometimes feels like this story is our own.
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I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've written the final page and switched the computer off.
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I am a bit different from the other sprinters because, I would say, I can run many different ways while the other guys they just came on and they can only run one way.
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People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.
