Eileen Atkins Quotes

My looks were good enough for what I needed in every possible way but not so much to be a burden.

Eileen Atkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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In the U.S., the FBI or the people I met from the Department of Justice might be ignorant about Islam or about the East more generally, but I felt they were less willing to make blanket judgments about Muslims. This caution was less evident with some of the authorities I met in India.

Amitava Kumar

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I don't believe in pick-up lines because I've always been very comfortable in my own skin.

Skylar Astin

BelieveSkinComfortableMy OwnOwn

We need to quit appeasing our adversaries, and we need to stand with our allies.

Tom Cotton

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I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

Michel Hazanavicius

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There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we're working with have a say in how it's working.

Michael Moore

WorkDailyPeopleDemocracyBetter

We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.

Lorrie Fair

WomenSportsHistoryCountryOver

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

Chief Joseph

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The thing that attracted me to acting the most was I always felt quite unsure or insecure as a kid, and for some reason, when I got to perform these lines and characters, I felt safe. There was this confidence and excitement from performing that I loved.

Christie Laing

ConfidenceMeLovedActingKidSafe

The pressure is on the big teams.

Claudio Ranieri

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The picture was of me, and I sent it.

Anthony Weiner

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I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

Anne-Marie Duff

TimeParentsThinkWorryShyWrite

We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel.

Anthony Doerr

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