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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My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.
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I'm from London, and you hardly see stars because of the pollution of light. But in Arizona, there's nothing, so I can see the stars.
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If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.
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I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.
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Just as Jesus called out Peter as being of the devil for tempting him to take an easy way out, I believe such thoughts originate from the same place of fear. We can’t imagine how we’ll get through such a painful ordeal, so we want to take the first way out we see. We don’t want to have to suffer, uncertain of when—or if—we will come out the other side.
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After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
