Diane Abbott Quotes

I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.

Diane Abbott

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SonSchoolWrongHappenGotCrowd

I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

ChangeLiveAgeI AmPeopleWorld

Social media is my portal into the rest of the world - my periscope into the communities next to my community, into how the rest of the world thinks and feels.

Jenna Wortham

CommunitySocial MediaWorldRest

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

Jeff Bridges

WifeKiteMeBackGoShe

Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

Merrie Spaeth

StrategyMediaSayNothingCall

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

John Updike

ManYoungYoung ManBringPoemOff

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

Amelia Earhart

GoodReturningFirstReasonGoing

I like to eat pizza and spaghetti pomodoro, and I'm crazy for dessert. I like all of them: cassata, cheesecake, biscuits.

Stefano Gabbana

PizzaCrazyDessertEatCheesecake

What I really want, what I always really want, is baked potato and grilled cheese. But then I'd be really fat.

Stella McCartney

FatCheeseWantAlwaysPotatoThen

I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with my band, and with everything else I feel kind of uncomfortable. I don't think I'm socially awkward. I just prefer being behind a piano.

Tom Odell

LoveThinkFriendsUncomfortable

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

Tom Stoppard

SaidWriteYearsLikeAbsolutely

Frankly, it's depressing, each night sleeping in someone else's home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn't an 'All in the Family' cliche, but it's still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can't say when that will change.

Rosecrans Baldwin

FamilyChangeHomeLiveNightName

I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning it can be clicked away from, the forward movement of text can be interrupted. But I don't think this is just a function of technology. It's also a function of cultural preference.

Joshua Cohen

TechnologyForwardThinkMeaningYou

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