Jill Lepore Quotes

I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote.

Jill Lepore

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LibraryRememberLoanYearsRadio

Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.

John Amery

ThreeRoyalAir ForceOverAirUs

I think for me, as far as cooking, some of it came naturally just from watching my dad. My dad was more of the cook than my mom was, so it's just handing it down from generation to generation. I just love to cook and have fun. And as performers, we love to cook, and we love to entertain people.

Joey Fatone

LoveCookingFunPeopleMeMom

What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy.

John Lithgow

LifeChildhoodChildMeTryingKind

The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it's the right thing for you because if you are fortunate enough to have something go for a long term, you want to make sure that it's something that you really want to be spending a bulk of your time on.

Stephen Lang

TimeEnoughLongYouTelevisionGo

I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness.

Stevie Wonder

KindnessMotherLiveMeLovedDie

Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will remain vulnerable to the cyberthreats of the 21st century.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

DemocracyWillDigitalOutsideUp

One night, my father woke me up because he'd come home with a horse. Two days later, I asked my mother where it was, and she said it had run away. She'd sold it.

Roisin Murphy

FatherMotherHomeMeNightHorse

I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.

Mike Wallace

YouHopelessAshamedKeepWorking

I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.

David Slade

BelieveDoingFilmmakingLiving

Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.

Bob Casey, Jr.

HomePeopleAmericaDecentMost

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

Anthony Zinni

WorkMindBuildingEyeThinkBetter

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

Peter Greenaway

EndCinemaMeansManyFilmmakers

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