Ken Livingstone Quotes
Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.
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My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
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We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.
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A Sonnet is a moment's monument,-Memorial from the Soul's eternityTo one dead deathless hour.
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Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.
