Agnes Macphail Quotes
I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.
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The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
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I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
