Linda Colley Quotes

'Captives' was a deliberate bridging exercise, an attempt to use detailed knowledge of what Britain was like on the inside, to reach a deeper, more variegated understanding of how its peoples experienced external adventures and aggression over a quarter of a millennium in four continents.

Linda Colley

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I will work as hard as I do because I love it.

Joan Rivers

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I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

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All my best friends are women except for one or two. I feel women are superior to men, and I love having them around. All that female energy is good for me.

John Polson

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It came to me then in a flash that obviously the temperature of the water was responsible for the nystagmus.

Robert Barany

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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

Rita Mae Brown

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With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

Robin Gibb

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Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.

Mary Roach

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Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

Lorna Luft

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A good film to me is like lightning in a bottle.

Don Scardino

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I'm not concerned with what people think of me.

Don Lemon

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No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

Desmond Morris

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