Claire Foy Quotes

I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.

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• They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Effort
  • Decree
  • Regulator

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Sound
  • Studying

• Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Fiction

• Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Confidence
  • Lack
  • Contagious

• Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Best

• Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Never
  • Through
  • Nurse

• Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Sports
  • Boxing
  • Few

• Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • You
  • Know
  • Never

• Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Important
  • Emotional

• Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Language

• If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Back

• There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Between

• As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Kid
  • Excited

• When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.

  

  Kajol
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Simple

• When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Song
  • Big

• I try not to put myself in horrible situations anymore.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul

• If you've got a verse with a lot of rhythm, you want to pair it with something that doesn't.

  

  Max Martin

• Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• When I was first elected to parliament 18 years ago, one of the many things that struck me and that I still feel now is how the Labour Party, the party of collective action, can, at MP level and above, behave in such an individualistic way.

  

  Bob Ainsworth
  • Action
  • Party

• I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!

  

  Bikram Choudhury
  • World
  • Music
  • Sports

• I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Library