Marleena Debrough Quotes & Sayings

I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff. — Laura Wade

Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money, lowers the fever. — Steven Pressfield

A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone. — Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

Effective policing relies on the police having the confidence of the communities they serve, and this consultation gives the public an opportunity to contribute to the values and standards they expect of police officers. — Hazel Blears

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation. — Mahatma Gandhi

I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who are not mindless bigots, won't allow their behaviour to provoke us into words or behaviour which would could be seen as a breach of the peace. Hopefully, those of us who admire Margaret Thatcher are too well-mannered to fall for the bait. — Norman Tebbit

As he started 'Whisky and Gin' and the cheering and the shrieking filled my senses, I thought of Mama, shattered by the war and Papa's death and I wished with all my heart that she could understand how it felt to be us that night - how it felt to be eighteen and unbeaten, eighteen and alive. — Eva Rice

The great are deceived if they imagine they have appropriated ambition and vanity to themselves. These notable qualities flourish as notably in a country church and churchyard as in the drawing room or in the closet. Schemes have indeed been laid in the vestry, which would hardly disgrace the conclave. Here is a ministry, and here is an opposition. Here are plots and circumventions, parties and factions equal to those which are to be found in courts. Nor are the women here less practiced in the highest feminine arts than their fair superiors in quality and fortune. Here are prudes and coquettes; here are dressing and ogling, falsehood, envy, malice, scandal -- in short everything which is common to the most splendid assembly or politest circle. — Henry Fielding

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you can't airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc. — Simon Beaufoy

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama. — Kathy Baker

I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs. — Charles Stross

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating. — Val McDermid

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul. — Joris-Karl Huysmans