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Carol Vorderman Quotes

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

Carol Vorderman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: british
Birth: December 24, 1960

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You Look Become More Critics How

I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.

Home Year You Back Know Grandfather

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.

Light End Train End Of The Tunnel

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

Michael Emerson

Time Moment Experience Present Stand

I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.

Coffee Day Me Writing Powerful Over

I've always loved reading manifestos. Collectively, they represent a triumph of style.

Style Reading Loved Triumph Always

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

Find Kind Tension Productive Very

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

Myself Career Out Writer Really

There are not that many people who can say they have been on a show long enough to leave it. Usually, you don't have a choice. The show gets canceled. There are very few people who live in the rare air of being able to leave a show while it is still in production.

Live People Enough Long You Choice

There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.

World Rest American Canada More Pay

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

Death People Talk Birth Need Novel

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

Sports Difficult First Things Arts

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

Ludwig Bemelmans

Me Writing Copy Done Finish Kick

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