Annalena McAfee Quotes
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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.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
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We're all working together; that's the secret.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
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I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.
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I'm a one-man idiot.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.
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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.
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There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'
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Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.
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Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
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There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
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I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.
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When they lay down beside me I made my confession to them. They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem. If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn, They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
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We cannot turn away because a topic is unpleasant or vile. Why? Because one way to rid our society of evil is to confront it boldly.
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I see myself as a recovering journalist.
