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Barbara Amiel Quotes

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

Barbara Amiel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: December 4, 1940

Topics

Morning Ideas Television Place Up

The first episodes I actually read for 'Downton,' Sybil was really intimidated and hadn't come into her own. So it's only in Series Two that she's become so headstrong. In general, I find it exciting to play strong, female roles because they're shocking.

Jessica Brown Findlay

Strong Find Play Become She First

The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.

Jeff Bridges

Job Fun Night Have Fun End Problem

I wanted women wearing my sweaters to give the impression they were naked. The aim wasn't to impose outfits but to stay as close as possible to women's bodies and their freedom of movement.

Sonia Rykiel

Women Freedom Aim Possible Movement

I am just sorry my own mother had to live under that regime for most of her life. I was lucky. I got out and, 14 years later, Czechoslovakia became a free country. So I feel anger, even fury, at this bloody system that ruined so many people's lives for no reason whatsoever.

Martina Navratilova

Life Mother Live Anger I Am People

One of the things I wanted to do in 'The Death of Truth' was explore some of the larger social and political dynamics that fueled the rise of Trump and brought America to the point where a third of the country will casually shrug off hard facts about everything from the size of inaugural crowds to the crime rate among immigrants.

Michiko Kakutani

Truth Death Facts Political America

I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.

Chloe Sevigny

School High School Summer High Up

I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.

Bonnie Langford

Good Me Good Things Believe You Bad

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

William Shakespeare

New Year's Hope Down Drink Come

Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, he poured a small amount of oleic acid, a natural surfactant which tends to form a dense film at the water-air interface.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Beautiful Small Experiment Pond Film

Part of being young is making mistakes.

Nikki Reed

Mistakes Making Mistakes Young Being

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin.

Nigel Kennedy

You Know Mean Violin Yes Because

I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I probably plighted my fated troth in 1949, when the A's fluked into a winning season and introduced a pintsize southpaw named Bobby Shantz.

Richard Corliss

Age Baseball Winning Philadelphia