Anne Sebba Quotes

When I was ten, I caught glandular fever and had to have a year off school. My parents arranged for a tutor to keep me on track with my studies.

Anne Sebba

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SchoolParentsMeYearFeverOff

I hear from everybody, and they say 'Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.' We're not hired to fight.

Joe Donnelly

Working TogetherTogetherFightThink

I definitely feel sorry more people don't get to see my films. They aren't inaccessible, and if people got the chance to see them, I know they'd like them.

Andrea Arnold

PeopleSorryChanceFeelKnowSee

The whole London football scene is now financially more powerful and ambitious than ever before. That reflects the city's economic might and its multiculturalism. Now West Ham have a new , and Spurs and Chelsea will follow. And the London clubs have widened their areas of support.

John Motson

FootballSupportCityPowerfulNew

Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party.

John Hewson

PartyWillOutGetThrownHis

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

Robert Jay Lifton

ChildhoodNew YorkBrooklynBornNew

Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out.

Sophia Amoruso

GoodJobSchoolCollegeBetterGo

Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.

Tom Rath

ChangeTimePeopleThreeTwoOver

The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

Robert Fisk

AngryWarTiredCorruptionParty

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of short stories - you realize it's your interpretation of events that people read, and they absorb that.

Jay Chandrasekhar

LifeHistoryPeopleThinkShortYou

Westminster politics is very unattractive, and people are channelling political energy into more inward questioning - there are a lot of musicians whose songs are all about feeling, and it's almost like that's the only safe place to express yourself.

Johnny Flynn

PoliticsYourselfPeopleEnergyMore

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

Diane Ackerman

LoveSunlightTouchSeemsEssential

Americans never quit.

Douglas MacArthur

PatriotismQuitNever QuitNever

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