Annalena McAfee Quotes
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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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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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.
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Sexy is attitude, but fitness for me is my dance. I dance two hours nearly every day. You break into good sweat, and it doesn't even feel like exercise. Apart from that, I enjoy Pilates.
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I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.
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Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.
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Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like.
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One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
