Margaret Atwood Quotes

The policemen's faces glisten too, they're holding themselves back, they love this, it's a ceremony, they're implementing a policy.

Margaret Atwood

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• I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Actor
  • Overrated
  • Underrated

• But in action, one defies one's character.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Character
  • Action

• I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• You can't get dressed without good hair.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Dressed

• Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Great
  • Surfing
  • Kiteboarding

• Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

  

  Larry King
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Week

• If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Action
  • Drama

• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Age
  • Unique

• In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Perfect
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Good
  • Dinner
  • New Years

• I love seeing lingerie on the runway, but I personally think it's best to save it for the bedroom!

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Think
  • Best

• One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Impact

• Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Work
  • Want
  • Fast

• Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Different
  • Black
  • Doubt

• My whole thing, my priority, is my family, my kids, and my wife. That's my future. I don't really care about what role is next.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Future

• Any strengthening of the squad, in a League and Champions League which demands so much, is a good thing because you need many top quality players.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Squad

• My biggest fear is death because I don't think I'm going anywhere. And since I don't think that, and I don't have a belief... I'm married to someone who has the belief, so she knows she's going somewhere.

  

  Larry King
  • She
  • Think
  • Death

• I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Kind
  • Challenge
  • Person

• There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for.

  

  John Clayton
  • People
  • Political
  • Thankful

• We are living in a world which seems to be founded on the refusal to reflect.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • World

• I have always had a very busy life. The difference is that a lot more people are helping advise me what to do, and a lot more people are observing what I do. But in terms of time and working schedule, it is not that different from my normal working week.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.

  

  Amanda Peet
  • Interesting

• The policemen's faces glisten too, they're holding themselves back, they love this, it's a ceremony, they're implementing a policy.

  

  Margaret Atwood