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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I'd rather be a great mom than a sexy model.
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Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.
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People have to be sensitive to - I hate using the word 'celebrities' - people in the spotlight. Because there's so much more than what you see on the cover of a magazine.
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It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.
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Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.
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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?
