Margaret MacMillan Quotes

We must do our best to raise the public awareness of the past in all its richness and complexity.

Margaret MacMillan

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.

Jessie Mueller

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My goal is to get people to really believe that the impossible is real, and not that I'm responsible for it. I want them to believe that they're having the most unusual, magical and bizarre days of their lives.

Michael Carbonaro

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I do like to play people I wouldn't want to spend five minutes in a room with.

Michaela Watkins

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Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

Jose Bergamin

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I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.

Doug TenNapel

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I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

Christina Applegate

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It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

Bobby Scott

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There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.

Philip Kerr

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Chanel No. 5 is my perfume when I'm feeling like a lady. It's old-school and warm - and it reminds me of my mom.

Phoebe Tonkin

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We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars.

Thomas Frank

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You're always in a blessed position if you have a great success story, especially to be in a position to be able to tell it so people can even understand.

Tionne Watkins

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Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

Mario Cantone

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