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Gertrude Jekyll Quotes

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

Gertrude Jekyll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: celebrity
Nationality: british
Birth: November 29, 1843 - December 8, 1932

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Beauty Ugly Impression Delight May

I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the British. In some things they may have the advantage, but we will be found to have equally great in others.

John C. Calhoun

Great I Am Will Belief Others More

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

Love Respect Someone Remember You

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

Business Music Best Loved More Pop

Maybe we like our politicians to appear like bumbling oafs. It certainly never did Ronald Reagan or George Bush any harm. The Italians still seem enamoured of Silvio Berlusconi - a man whose entry into a room is less likely to be greeted with the Italian national anthem than by the Benny Hill theme tune.

Man Hill Never Theme Room Seem

My abiding theme is separations.

No one respects a talent that is concealed.

Desiderius Erasmus

Talent Concealed Respects

I'd love to win trophies, be in movies, have a body of work I'm proud of and find a way to enjoy it along the way. Success is probably a more of a complicated thing than that.

Work Love Success Win Proud Enjoy

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Christopher Hitchens

Wife People Book Say Never Absurd

I don't write any kind of sequel or remake.

Kind Write Remake Any Sequel

I don't know much about writing a show or being a show-runner on a show, but I can only imagine that when you first cast a show and you first do a pilot, there are so many components that you're throwing into the mix and you're not sure how they're going to develop.

Writing You I Can Know Pilot First

My dad was always fascinated and amused by Trump, so I learned to be fascinated and amused by Trump.

Always Trump Fascinated Learned Dad

There are millions of people who think that romance isn't real writing. But the only person who can make you real, make your books real, is you.

Love Back Digital Started Publishing

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