Eileen Atkins Quotes

I'm told I am over-choosy, and I shocked everybody by doing Jeffrey Archer. I did that to annoy everybody; sometimes, between Medea and Virginia Woolf, you can get punch-drunk.

Eileen Atkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 16, 1934

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It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.

Stephen Greenblatt

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When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Steven Strogatz

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It's wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.

Srikumar Rao

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The UFC has a great plan for us. I'm just happy I'm employed by them and can pay my house bills and everything.

Stipe Miocic

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If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

Tony Dungy

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It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent.

Mitch McConnell

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A lot of artists are afraid to be themselves and afraid to tell people what it really is.

Joyner Lucas

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Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

Dianne Reeves

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I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

Dorothy Hamill

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Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Cher

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I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.

Claire McCaskill

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Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

Arthur Smith

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