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Joanna Baillie Quotes

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: scottish
Birth: 1762 - 1851

Topics

Pride Better Vanity Pampered Than

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Music Culture Always Going Only

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

Love People Ending Controversy Argue

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

Work Strength Out Core Work Out

I believe how a character eventually turns out is completely attributable to an actor. Even with a meaty role, if I am enacting it as an accessory, I will look like an accessory.

Character I Am Believe Look Actor

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.

Michael Cunningham

Good People World Think Feelings He

It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.

You Know Done Mean Director Him

I want to leave behind a literary legacy.

Legacy Want Leave Behind Literary

None of the people who wrote Obamacare want anything to do with it. None of the people responsible for Obamacare can afford it. They all want subsidies. None of the people that gave us Obamacare have any desire to actually go to HealthCare.gov and sign up. That's for you and me to have to do.

People Me You Go Desire Want

I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a 'stick and stay' mentality. In this day and time, people have a fast food mentality of ministry. If it doesn't fit them or if it doesn't fit in their schedule, they'll move on to something else. That's a norm in today's time.

Today Time Food Day People Think

My dream role is Richard Pryor, no question about that. I'm a big Richard Pryor fan. I've always been intrigued about the darkness behind his comedy; that would always be a dream role for me.

Darkness Me Comedy Dream Question

The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.

Douglas Alexander

Loving Everyone Conceit Cultural

If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet.

Internet Google Scared If I Could

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