Anne Reid Quotes
I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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When I see something, I go for it.
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Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on what is wrong with the world and feel sorry for myself? Or will I focus my energies on how I can live at my best in this place I find myself?...'I will do my best with what is here.'
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After 37 years in the Navy, there were no further jobs in uniform, and it was my time to transition. But I wanted to continue to mentor and educate young people, which is, of course, a big part of being a senior officer in the military.
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We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.
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The acting thing is the side benefit of becoming a little bit well known with my music.
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Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.
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I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?
