Anne Reid Quotes
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Conformity is dangerous.
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I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.
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I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
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The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
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I've always been interested in making movies.
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
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I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.
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Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
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I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.
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The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
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The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
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In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.
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When you want the belt, you have to work for it.
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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
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Clutter is death; it leads to thrashing. Keep desk clear: focus on one thing at a time.
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If I try harder I might be reincarnated as a lonely virgin hiding behind a cartoon frog.
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When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.
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What I love about analogue is it really forces you to go for a performance. I hear these young bands play perfect and they've been manipulated so much that there's not much personality to them. It's taken away some of the rawness and immediacy you get from a human performance.
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I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself.
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As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.
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The British tend to be uptight; they shy away from being tactile.
