Anne Reid Quotes
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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I'm not a very organized person.
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I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
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Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.
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For a long time I couldn’t get out of bed in the morning without cocaine.’
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The great thing about James Baldwin and his writing is that it's still fresh every time you pick it up. That's also the sad thing about his writing sometimes, too.
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Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.
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They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.
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I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.
