Clare Short Quotes
The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. On the state of British politics.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
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Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just need your closest friends and family all around you, and it's nothing to do with anyone else.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
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Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
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I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.
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Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.
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Ovince Saint Preux needs to know that not only me but every other guy at the American Kickboxing Academy are ready and open to open those doors in trying to help him accomplish his goals.
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'I haven’t organized my life as a narrative, you know. I’m not sure you’ll understand.''As listeners, we are not required to understand,' said Qiingi. 'Only to care.'
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I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.
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It is important to always look forward.
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I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.
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I just think that when you've been singing for 30 years, which I have been, you just want to find different things you can do with your voice. It's a constant journey. It's not like any one album that you make is who you are. It just reflects that particular day.
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Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.
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Nothing means more to me than racing for my country, the Queen, the Royal Family, and the people back home that support me.
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I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.
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High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.
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The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. On the state of British politics.
