Eileen Atkins Quotes

My grammar school caught on to the fact that the reason I was falling asleep in class was that I was doing working men's clubs till 10 or 11 at nights. My mother was told I shouldn't do it anymore. Of course, I was bringing in money to the family, so nobody liked hearing that.

Eileen Atkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyMotherMoneyMenSchool

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

Johann Arndt

FearGodSoulManBodyWhatever

I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill.

Andre Rieu

WorkMusicPowerHealthHappyMind

We can appear to be tough as nails, but guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.

John Krasinski

FightInsecurityToughThinkYou

Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge.

Robert Gottlieb

ManLittleWhoLittle ManOnce

Until the absorption of the Polish territories, the Russian Empire had had practically no Jews, and it was uniquely ill-equipped to handle this new addition to its ethnic and religious mix.

Tom Reiss

NewEmpireHandleEthnicJewsMix

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

Mike Myers

TimePoliceMeBelieveWillCome

I like being able to donate my comedy to charity. I'm not a billionaire, and I can't write checks.

Judy Gold

CharityComedyWriteBeingAble

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

Claire Danes

YouGoKnowCrisisYearsFilm

Being able to be the guy that took down The Shield, there were a lot of people in the locker room who wish they could have said that.

Seth Rollins

PeopleWishDownSaidRoomGuy

The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.

Thomas Sowell

DirectionBudgetTaxOfficeSame

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Thomas Sowell

RosePovertyProsperityFollowOwn

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

GoodBusinessPeopleYouWillIdea

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