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We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.


Margaret Thatcher


#compliment #our #regard #slick #sufficiently

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.


Joe Theismann


#believed #enough #ever #i #me

After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.


David Thewlis


#agent #cannes #end #flight #get

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.


Lewis Thomas


#birds #bubbles #comes #country #delicate

When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'


Peter Bergman


#daughter #did #friend #had #her

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.


Poppy Z. Brite


#chances #could #dad #equivalent #ever

My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.


Immanuel Velikovsky


#ancestors #chapter #chosen #father #first

I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.


Antonia Fraser


#am #dress #get #go #going

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.


Randy Travis


#class #fact #first #first class #had

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.


Darrell Hammond


#department #director #florida #health #home






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