Margaret Forster Quotes
People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!
Quotes to Explore
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.
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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
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Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission's work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.
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It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.
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When you say, 'I'm going to sing it once, and everyone is going to hear it forever,' that's kind of frightening.
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I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid increase in hostility between those who have differing opinions. I think this has led to the alienation of the public in governance, which jeopardizes democratic participation.
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I want to believe in ghosts. I love ghost stories.
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I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.
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I need to develop a car and engineer a car in a position that feels comfortable for me, and I don't think anyone can do a better job than I can in that position. The problem for me is if I can't get the car there I do struggle more than some.
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People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!
