Philippa Gregory Quotes

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.

Philippa Gregory

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 9, 1954

Topics

ColdHouseTallAlwaysUpBig

Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, are apart. Then they have the armed groups. Everybody's got a private army.

Menachem Begin

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Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

Maynard James Keenan

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For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.

Matt Cameron

WaterMeEnoughTryDrinkEat

It is amazing that, whenever a ladder match is announced, people automatically think of the Hardys.

Matt Hardy

PeopleAmazingThinkLadderMatch

I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

Jeff Abbott

LiveGreatCreativeThinkLuckyUp

I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.

Jeff Kinney

WorkHobbyWeekendsOnlyJustBooks

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

Stanley Hauerwas

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The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

Trip Adler

LearnYouMoreRealizeMuchHow

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

Tom Perrotta

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Watching boxer Dingko Singh's performance at the Asian Games, Bangkok, where he won gold, was the defining moment. I was 15 and enjoyed sports more than anything else. Singh's performance changed my life and inspired me to follow boxing.

Mary Kom

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Personally, I find looking at all of the supporting materials and bring it all back to me - the people I worked with, the experience of working on a project - makes it come alive again. So, I try to put those experiences into my commentary for the viewers.

Michael Mann

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They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

Louise Jameson

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