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Nina Bawden Quotes

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: January 19, 1925 - August 22, 2012

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Mother Hope School Me Farm Results

I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Myself Sleep Horror Never See Out

The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.

Jeannette Rankin

War World Believe Accomplishment

I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.

Family Culture Diversity New York

I think Mitch McConnell and, to a degree, Paul Ryan - they do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented. It's very obvious.

Think Want Degree Economic Obvious

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.

Purpose Face Present Voting Party

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

Me Law Lawyer Place Where Sense

Hong Kong has always been a dynamic and exciting and high-energy city, and it has that New York thing going on, and people here care about how they look.

New York People City Care Look New

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Poor Everything Who Knows He How

I just wear what I think looks nice.

Think Looks Nice Wear Just I Think

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

Age History Best Religion Society

I want to follow my path.

Path Want Follow

My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go to the Philippines - and then she decided to go back to school in her 40s, which surprised me. She went to UC Berkeley, and I think she was one of two African Americans in her class at Haas. She's really impressive.

Good Ride School Me Sister Think

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