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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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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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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The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.
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I love to share in a scene - I'd rather share than be alone.
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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?
