Anne Reid Quotes
My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.
Anne Reid
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
Randeep Hooda
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
Edith Head
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
Edmund Hillary
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
Eddie McClintock
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My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.
David Sedaris
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My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.
Roz Chast
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I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.
Banana Yoshimoto
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We're here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat.
Jerry Moss
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My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.
Anne Reid
