Antonia Fraser Quotes

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

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• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Always
  • Wanted

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• I have reservations about everything I do.

  

  Larry David
  • Everything
  • Reservations

• I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Believe
  • Sustainability

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Thought

• I have no literary fears.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Fears
  • Literary

• 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.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • More
  • Planet

• 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.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Team
  • Single
  • Training

• The burden which is well borne becomes light.

  

  Ovid
  • Light
  • Well
  • Burden

• The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Different
  • Government
  • Legal

• 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.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Different
  • Live
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • High
  • Wind
  • Acceptance

• Unfortunately, Bruce Rauner is more committed to playing politics than fighting for Illinois women and families.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Women
  • Fighting
  • Politics

• 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.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Look
  • Said

• My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Friend
  • Politics
  • Caught

• My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• I knew I always wanted to sing.

  

  David Ruffin The Temptations

• I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.

  

  William Styron
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Honor

• Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church....as long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. If they have a little extra and it is easy and safe to give, they do so. After all, God loves a cheerful giver, right?

  

  Francis Chan
  • Long
  • Love
  • Church

• The Scottish Himalaya Expedition (1951) The 'Goethe couplet' referred to here is from an extremely loose translation of Faust 214-30 done by John Anster in 1835. Reference:

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Done

• Yes's whole career was never really planned in any sort of way. It's always sad when a member leaves, but it's exciting when someone new comes in, and that regenerates the freshness of the band.

  

  Chris Squire Cinema
  • Career
  • Band
  • Sad

• After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

  

  Antonia Fraser