Cynthia Payne Quotes
I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.
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Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
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When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
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Making people's lives better is not a partisan issue.
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The danger hidden within Weber's charismatic celebrity is … having a predisposition to imitate any one individual must always have its negative impact especially when the role model does not feel a duty … to instantiate suitable values to adopt.
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He who hath bent him o'er the deadEre the first day of death is fled,-The first dark day of nothingness,The last of danger and distress,Before decay's effacing fingersHave swept the lines where beauty lingers.
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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There's so much more danger in someone where you really don't know what they're going to do, and you don't know what they're really capable of, rather than someone who's trying to be physically tough.
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In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.
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I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.
