Ken Livingstone Quotes
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I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.
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The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. When I first came back to the theater, and I was suddenly doing eight shows a week again for three or four months, I had to find a new reason to do it.
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
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Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.
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Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.
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I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
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I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.
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I never believe in going to America with my show reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm way too insecure and too proud.
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The thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.
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Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
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At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.
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He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
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I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or writing about them. I tried and it was generally boring and always unconvincing. Most importantly I wanted to try to place Afghans and Afghanistan in the foreground rather than my own character.
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I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.
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As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted 14 years ago...
