Margaret MacMillan Quotes

George W. Bush, judging by his repeated invocations, thinks that time will eventually prove that he was right. He is not alone in putting his faith in the future.

Margaret MacMillan

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I've always wanted to go to Phuket in Thailand.

Jillian Hervey

GoAlwaysThailandWanted

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

Joaquin Andujar

CrazyStupidThinkYouTellClown

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Joan Armatrading

MotherWritingRoomPianoStarted

Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something.

Joan Cusack

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After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

Jerry Saltz

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Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

John Astin

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My father did everything for me. He was awesome.

Jenson Button

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The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

Andrew Bird

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I think naturally my orientation is from my father.

Andrew Cuomo

FatherThinkI ThinkOrientation

No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years.

Max von Sydow

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I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

Steve Fossett

TimeComfortableRiskNeverEverest

I do weird parts - there's always something wrong with my character, or they are in a really weird situation.

Julia Garner

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