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Linda Colley Quotes

Of course the U.K., and its component parts, should seek out as many connections with as many parts of the world as is profitable and feasible. But to play any kind of global role effectively, the U.K. is likely always to require allies within its own continent, and far more enterprise needs devoting to this.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: September 13, 1949

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World Connections Play Kind More

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

Me Start Think Say Critics Always

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Value You Bring Paid Get Hour

When I brought home a 98 percent on a test, my father would say, 'Ah, ah, where are the other two points? Go and get them, then bring them back.' My father and Nigerian culture has always stood for excellence.

Father Home Culture Excellence Back

It's an incredibly liberating feeling to have a skirt on. In fact, I know you can buy skirts, and you can buy work kilts and all sorts of stuff.

Work You Feeling Know Buy Stuff

There is no rule that says a footballer needs to be 'this high' and 'this wide.'

High Rule Footballer Needs Wide

Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter.

Best Smart Matter Intentions Seem

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

Writing Process Doing You Creating

There would be nothing more thrilling than to win a championship.

Win Nothing More Championship Would

Because it was my first time acting in English, everyone on set was difficult to understand. It was a mix of Scottish, Irish, British and American English. To understand a Scottish accent or an Irish accent was so hard.

Time American Acting Understand Hard

When I was little, my father was one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Suddenly - and how it happened to him was always a great mystery to me - he wasn't a star anymore; he was on the fringe. From the time I was 14, I was always conscious of a sense of worry, of terrific insecurity - agents, phony talk, the waits for the phone to ring.

Father Great Time Me Insecurity

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Change Welcome You Rule Must Ruler

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

Constance Baker Motley

Racism Now Century 20th Century Part

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