Marie Helvin Quotes
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
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Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?
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I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.
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I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
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Whatever age you think I am, you're probably right.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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Three years ago he was an honest, self-denying youth, ready to devote himself to every good cause; now he was a corrupt and refined egotist, given over to personal enjoyment. … And all this terrible transformation took place in him only because he ceased to have faith in himself, and began to believe in others.
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In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.
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Congratulations to 'Countdown' - it was an evening I will never forget - and a special thank you to Molly Meldrum.
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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
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I have a horrible sense of direction.
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It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.
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I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then or now, in which all the articles were written by musicians, by jazz men. They had been laboring for years under the stereotype that they weren't very articulate except when they picked up their horn.
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To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
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I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
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The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
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The only thing I can't change is the elasticity of my skin.
