Lucy Powell Quotes
In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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WWE doesn't owe us anything.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
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Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.
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What a name – Pyotr Frankis. I wondered who had made it up for him. Pyotr Frankis, Jascha – Slavs all over the place, it would seem. Just like my great-grandmother. I felt for her in my mind about the same way you’d feel for a stray piece of food in your mouth with your tongue, but as usual, I had no sense of her beyond a particularly intense memory.
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At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.
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In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote.
