Antonia Fraser Quotes
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.
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I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
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I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.
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I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'
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I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.
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I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
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You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.
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Mastering the paradox of star brands is very difficult and rare - fortunately.
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I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.
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A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy.
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Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
