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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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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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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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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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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I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay.
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Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life
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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.
