Jane Austen Quotes
There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
Quotes to Explore
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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I can always go back to education.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.
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Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.
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Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.
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When you're getting to do what you want to do, you just assume you're going to hit a point where someone is like, 'No, you can't do that.' Strangely, that never happened.
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'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
