Tansy Rayner Roberts Quotes

History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

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I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

Jeremy Renner

BusinessMusicMeImpossibleActor

An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.

Joel Salatin

GrowFarmSheepRunNoseCattle

Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion.

Robert Green Ingersoll

NatureManBraveFreeYouFind

Without people like Dylan and the Beatles and people like Paul Simon, I think rock n' roll would have died out like Dixieland jazz.

Robert Hilburn

PeopleThinkJazzRockWithoutOut

In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

LifeCareRealReal LifeStereotype

I want to go out there and be clean in my performances and showcase great knockouts.

Robbie Lawler

GreatGoWantCleanOutShowcase

Reading 'The New Yorker' - I start on the last page and go backwards, reading all the cartoons. Then I read 'Shouts and Murmurs.' Then I read the reviews. Then I read the articles that immediately appeal to me.

Miriam Shor

MeStartReadingGoNewPage

I like crunchy things like Baked Lays.

Lisa Ling

ThingsLikeBakedLays

If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

Jose Mujica

LifeWorkTimeYourselfYouNeed

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

Connie Willis

ScienceAmazingThinkLiteratureYou

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

Annie Leibovitz

Looking BackLookingYouBackScared

There's always money to get.

Rick Ross

MoneyAlwaysGet

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