Nina Bawden Quotes

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

Nina Bawden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

Matthew Macfadyen

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I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.

Stephen Rea

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I think people get caught up a little bit in the fact of finding things that people can't do instead of looking at the things that the player can do.

Trae Young

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We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in August of 2011 and the fiscal cliff deal at the end of 2012, which saved 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase.

Mitch McConnell

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One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron's view of the artist as a paid employee.

Joseph Brodsky

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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

Dick Cavett

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I got in the audition line called 'Making the Band' because I wanted to be in a band. If I didn't, I would have done 'American Idol.'

Dawn Richard

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Let's put Coloradans in charge; let's put Westerners in charge of the West.

Cory Gardner

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I'm a horrible business person.

Colin Trevorrow

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In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

Chuck Jones

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I faced odds when glaucoma took the bat out of my hands. But I didn't give in or feel sorry for myself. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 'It may be cloudy in my right eye, but the sun is shining very brightly in my left eye.'

Allan Ray

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I think the whole spoiler thing has taken over the media.

Peter Capaldi

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