Margaret Atwood Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.
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Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
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One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness.
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Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'
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It only takes 140 characters to toss one's character out the window.
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Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.
