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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My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation.
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I would play music every day from the time I was about 4 or 5 years old. Every time I would go from one end of the house to the other, I would pass the piano and play a few notes.
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So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.
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I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.
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It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
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Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.
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After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
