Margery Allingham Quotes
I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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My own career was undoubtedly determined, not by my own will but by various factors over which I have no control-primarily those mysterious glands in which Nature prepares the very essence of life, our internal secretions.
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I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
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I don't like everybody who I see on TV.
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I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
