Margaret Drabble Quotes
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.Margaret Drabble
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
Olivia Wilde -
I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
Vince Cable -
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Samuel Butler -
Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
Macaulay Culkin -
I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
Hannah Gadsby -
My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
Nancy Pelosi
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Pablo Picasso -
The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
Walter Russell Mead -
Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
Fidel Castro -
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
Laura Linney -
Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
Vidya Balan -
If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
Lara Spencer
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
Kailash Kher -
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Samuel Johnson -
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
Kalpana Chawla -
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
Wadada Leo Smith -
I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
Ramez Naam -
I don't know, I like the word sassy.
Kat Dennings
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I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
Maria Sharapova -
I was a delivery boy at one point.
Mark Pontius -
Digest the opinion and determine our future course of conduct.
Charles James -
The grave I go to will not be my own. But if I could step outside myself and contemplate the person that I am, I should know at last what envy is.
Anna Akhmatova -
I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.
Bruce Willis -
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Margaret Drabble