Margaret Forster Quotes
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really jealous of movie directors whose careers seem to grow and they'll be 70 years old and still doing these incredible jobs. I'm going to reverse that, I hope.
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As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry.
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All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
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Euro Disney is not my vibe. I can't really deal with Disney, man. It's not my thing.
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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.
