Miriam Margolyes Quotes

Mummy was absolutely the rock in my life. It was not that I didn't love my father; he was such a quiet man, and she was not. She was the most vivid person I have ever known. She was accomplished and brave and fearless. She used to say to me, 'I want you to be able to talk to anyone about anything.'

Miriam Margolyes

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Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.

Jim Henson

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When I was in the Army, 100 percent of our effort was to really be sharp, and soldiers, we were under live fire all the time.

Jim Inhofe

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Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

Jim Mattis

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We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

Joan Didion

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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Anna Jameson

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For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

John Trudell

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Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.

Steve Irwin

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You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.

Robert Duvall

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Donald Trump would make a great president.

Roger Stone

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I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation.

Mike O'Malley

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Investing in better-quality education outcomes - especially in maths and science - more than pays for itself.

Julia Gillard

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It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.

Jose Gonzalez

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