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I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.
James McGreevey

There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down.
Helen Mirren

Sexy, Nothing, Down

Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Car, Rain, Short

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
Kevin Kelly

Change, Best, Down

For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.
Daniel Morgan

Hope, Long, Value

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.
Alexander McCall Smith

Women, Enjoy, Books

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.
Martin Freeman

Give, Another, Ourselves

I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.
Martin Freeman

Love, Home, Else

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
Martin Freeman

Life, Hate, Fact

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
Abraham Cahan

Laugh, Him, Broken

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.
Mary MacLane

Happy, Mother, Wife

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
George Berkeley

Stupid, Senseless, Oyster

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
Rachel Stevens

Done, Proud, Until

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
Gaston Bachelard

Mind, Soul, Gift

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
Jo Nesbo

Boring, Until, Water

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Goal, Encourage, Push

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
Donna Tartt

Good, Book, Write

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Become, Idea, Films

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Loved, United, Nations

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.
Paul Nurse

Time, Good, Enough

This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.
Paul Nurse

Long, Thought, Dark

'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.
Frank Miller

Someone, Nothing, Book

We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of - and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues.
Frank Miller

Good, America, Next

I'd rather go by bus.
Prince Charles

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
Sam Mendes

Work, Forward, Sometimes

I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.
Jason Bateman

Small, Year, Three

In 2001, Congress passed much needed tax relief to allow Americans to keep more of their hard earned money and spend it as they see fit - rather than how the federal government sees fit.
Doc Hastings

Money, Government, Hard

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
Alan Turing

May, Two, Intuition

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.
Alan Ladd

Father, Alan, David

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.
Trevor Nunn

Working, Project, Telling

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