Virginia Henley Quotes

I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords of the Realm series are real historical characters, everything had to be authentic. I researched Woburn Abbey, where my heroine lived, and everything about Barons Court in Ireland, which was the ancestral home of Abercorn.

Virginia Henley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 5, 1935

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When you've done so many records in 20 years like I have, you're going to have ebbs and flows and go through peaks and valleys.

Joe Bonamassa

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The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.

John Burnside

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Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.

Robert Kennedy

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If I'm going somewhere to work, I'm there to work as hard as I can, put out the best product possible, and help any way I can along the way.

Matt Hardy

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Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.

Stephen Ambrose

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I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

Roger Moore

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The original 'Star Trek' is very much a product of the '60s - the new frontier, optimism, the idea of bringing democracy to the galaxy. It's still a timeless show, but it's very much a show made in the 1960s.

Ronald D. Moore

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I never intended to only do dark, serious things.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.

Dom DeLuise

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The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

Cormac McCarthy

LifeLiveFreedomYouDangerousWay

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.

Conrad Veidt

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The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

Bob Woodward

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