Diane Abbott Quotes

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Diane Abbott

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I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.

Jessica Lange

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There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.

Jerome Robbins

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It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

Anna Garlin Spencer

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In general, I feel so much of pop culture is set in the generic big city, particularly comics. I feel like there are so many other stories to tell.

Jeff Lemire

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When you have something that is perfect, that occupies a position and sector unrivaled by anyone else, that's one thing we do not want to tamper with.

John Paulson

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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Tryon Edwards

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I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

Tony Kushner

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I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I know to make a stab at answering the never-ending questions of the heart that arise simply from the everyday living of our lives.

Julia Glass

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I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

Christina Aguilera

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I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.

Connie Stevens

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Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Bobby Scott

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No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't be cynical. If your boss is Eeyore, do you want to work with someone like that? Oh, bother.

Bob Iger

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