Lydia Leonard Quotes
Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I never left doo wop.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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I think I've heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don't dress very well.
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I really like Demi Lovato. I think she is really cool, and her laugh is infectious.
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People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.
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If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end.
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The secret of directing is working with really good people.
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Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.
