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I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Dementia is quite unlike cancer or heart disease or any of those other conditions where you bargain with God for a cure… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having… — Daniel Greenberg Copy Share Image
I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to… — Stand Watie Copy Share Image
If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
I'm quite a confident person in many ways, but there's only so much you can hear about being compared to Hattie Jacques.… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
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If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
When the Bond films started, people didn't travel quite as much as they do now; a lot of people had never been… — John Glen Copy Share Image
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I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of… — David Milne Copy Share Image
I was quite young when I went to a drama workshop. I was around 9 or 10. I showed interest in it.… — Luke Pasqualino Copy Share Image
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It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and… — Sean Booth Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my… — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
When I was super young, I had an Atari and used to play 'Space Invaders.' Then I fell in love with 'Mario… — Amber Rose Copy Share Image
I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my… — Kevin Shelley Copy Share Image
I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come… — Ali MacGraw Copy Share Image
I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you… — Alan Bates Copy Share Image
I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there… — Joe Henderson Copy Share Image
I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful… — Kevin Warsh Copy Share Image
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
I always say Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth. It's quite true of everything: The… — Ryan Cartwright Copy Share Image
I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
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