Antonia Fraser Quotes
I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.
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Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
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I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
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I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
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I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
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I love being from Wisconsin.
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I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily.
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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.
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When you get a job on 'The Walking Dead' you imagine you're going to be running through the woods with a lot of weaponry shouting, 'Look out!'
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I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Better, the perfect, easy discipline of the swallows dip and swoop, without east or west.
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We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.
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You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.
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The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It's part of why I was so driven.
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For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.
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I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.
