Brenda Blethyn Quotes

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

Brenda Blethyn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 20, 1946

Topics

PeopleLookingStand UpThinkStand

The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

Andrew Card

DreamsDressDemocracyThinkYou

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Maurice Sendak

TruthHopeChildrenMyselfYouTell

If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

Matt Kemp

LifeWorkLearningHomeCarMe

I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.

Jeffrey Skoll

BlessingWorldHouseLivingOutOff

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

DieBodyBornHumanHuman BodyWell

I want to do everything and beyond. I want to create impact.

Ana de Armas

ImpactCreateWantBeyondEverything

The events over the DAO hack might have spooked some people from ether to Bitcoin, helping with the rise in price, and now that ether is recovering a little, that movement is reversing the action.

Tone Vays

PeopleActionRisePriceMovement

In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority.

Robert Dallek

LateAuthorityFarmersMovement

If Senator Shelby calls his Financial Regulatory Improvement Act anything other than a hand out for the big banks, then he is being untruthful, and the people of Alabama deserve better.

Ron Crumpton

ImprovementPeopleFinancialBetter

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Mary Wesley

MarriagePersonKnowNeverGoing

I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home.

Masaharu Morimoto

HomeSugarBuySauceFlavorFive

I don't like 'comedy,' I like 'life,' which has everything in it.

Miriam Margolyes

LifeComedyEverythingLikeWhich

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