Margaret Drabble Quotes
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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Nothing exists except through language.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.
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Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.
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I tell all my younger friends, 'Don't be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.'
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An increase in shareholder value can arise for reasons other than greater efficiency, such as increased power and the resulting ability to increase profits by raising prices.
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How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
