Kevin Connolly Quotes
Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.
Kevin Connolly
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
Ian Mckellen
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
Waris Ahluwalia
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
Gary Neville
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
Carine Roitfeld
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
S. Jay Olshansky
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Saint Augustine
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
Maajid Nawaz
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
Patrick Macnee
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Edmund Hillary
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
Candice Swanepoel
