Lucy Powell Quotes
Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
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Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.
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It is only in your thriving that you have anything to offer anyone.
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I grew up in Boston, and we'd have every Thanksgiving at my parents' house there.
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When they hear from you, it counts. That's how we're going to win.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services.
