Margaret MacMillan Quotes

Women are interested in relationships and how other societies manage those relationships. They may have been constrained in what roles were open to them, but they could question and observe, and they could write it down.

Margaret MacMillan

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Preservation Hall is the sound of joy. When they start playing, people start moving.

Jim James

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'Obvious Child,' the short, had a nice life online and a great festival run, but the short and the feature still stand apart from everything else I've done. I play a woman who you might meet in life. My other work is much more heightened.

Jenny Slate

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With nonfiction, I had to learn how to be a clear communicator, but it was also a relief to be able to articulate some of my political ideas and beliefs. I also try to do that in my fiction, but I'm more interested in asking questions that lead to more questions, mysteries that lead to more mysteries, rather than immediate answers and solutions.

Jenny Zhang

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I never imagined I was going to do movies. My dreams were to become a regional theater actor.

John Carroll Lynch

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To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

Maya Rudolph

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I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

Melvin Burgess

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Theology is unnecessary.

Stephen Hawking

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I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.

Robert Blake

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I get told a lot that I'm kind of carving my own path. That there are not many actors who are out and are able to play straight and gay, and everyone's OK with it.

Russell Tovey

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This is a Disaster. This isn't something somebody can control. We ain't stuck on stupid.

Russel Honore

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Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.

Michael Moore

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I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

Dick Schaap

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