Antonia Fraser Quotes
We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation.
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The good news is dollars don't vote, people do.
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You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.
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We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.
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We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.
