Wendy Cope Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
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The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
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Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
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I don't believe you can say 'forever'; I don't believe it exists.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
