Deborah Moggach Quotes

It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.

Deborah Moggach

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 28, 1948

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Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.

Jodi Kantor

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You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

Jessica Alba

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We really need a public-interest government that is not taking marching orders from the fossil-fuel industry and the banks and the war profiteers. We really need a government that is acting on our behalf.

Jill Stein

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I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

Stanley Fish

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More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.

Simon Mainwaring

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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

Mary Augusta Ward

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I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

Mike Leigh

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The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Milton Sapirstein

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I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.

Derek Bok

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My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

Boz Scaggs

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To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill

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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

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