Miriam Margolyes Quotes

I was terribly upset not to be in 'Dickensian,' so I pretend to look down on it. The part I should have played, Mrs. Gamp, is done brilliantly by Pauline Collins, but I entered this world for no other reason than to play that part.

Miriam Margolyes

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As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

Jo Brand

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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

John Mortimer

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If the purpose of the wall was to destroy Berlin, Herr Ulbricht and his cohorts have erred sadly. Berlin is not only going to continue to exist - it's going to grow and grow and grow. Its ties to West Germany will not be severed.

Robert Kennedy

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Having two kids is like having 1000. It's just scheduling, moving around, being mobile.

Max Greenfield

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What's nice about Twitter is that you've got that point of contact with your fans that artists have never had before. I think it's good for musicians. Just as long as you don't start tweeting things about your girlfriends or boyfriends - there's got to be a line.

Tom Odell

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You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

Robert Duvall

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A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Louis Nizer

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No one at Goldman Sachs gets paid out of his or her own P&L. It matters how your business is doing, but it matters more how the firm as a whole is doing.

Lloyd Blankfein

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Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.

Dorothy Allison

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It sounds a bit cheesy saying 'Coronation Street' is like one big happy family, but there is a real aspect of that.

Debra Stephenson

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Private jets cost a lot of money.

Donald Trump

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I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

Brunello Cucinelli

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