Antonia Fraser Quotes
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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I have no literary fears.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
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There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you can rewrite it in a way with the material you have, and in rehearsals, you're really trying out different things. In an orchestra, you can't do that. They separate as soon as the performance factor comes into play.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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Unfortunately, Bruce Rauner is more committed to playing politics than fighting for Illinois women and families.
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I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.
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My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.
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Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.
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I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.
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Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.
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After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
