Polly Toynbee Quotes

But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

Polly Toynbee

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Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.

Andrea Bocelli

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A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

Max Apple

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Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess.

Stanley Hauerwas

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'Under My Skin' was the first CD I ever owned.

Soccer Mommy

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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

Mikhail Bakunin

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Early on, I joined that large group of show business cadets who were 'multi-hyphenates,' 'independents,' 'self produced' or 'alternately financed.' Sometimes, most times, I've had to do it all: raise the money, write the script, produce, direct and act in the film.

Mike Binder

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Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.

Michael Mann

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It's great to have a lot of support; people recognizing what you're doing out there and identifying with you in whatever way they see fit is a great fit, I think, and for me it's neat, for people to want to come to the golf course and watch me play golf.

Jason Dufner

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My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

Dimebag Darrell

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To all the younglings I come across in 'Game of Thrones' who suddenly find themselves well known, I say the theatre is your best friend - they will remember you.

Diana Rigg

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Arizona should be to the Sharing Economy what Texas is to Oil and what Silicon Valley used to be to the tech industry.

Doug Ducey

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I have always been attracted to songs that make me want to dance.

Chris Lane

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