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"My worst quality is impatience."
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"I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments."
Work
"I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care."
Family
"I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately."
Hate
"Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort."
Effort
"I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything."
Work
"Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear."
Advice
"I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch."
Life
"If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it."
Age
"A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community."
People
"I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs."
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"Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides."
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Personal Development
"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."
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Personal Development
"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."
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Personal Development
"It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters."
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Personal Development
"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."
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Personal Development
"The amount of time you invest into your products determines the quality of the products."
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Personal Development
"The quality of goods and services are always viewed as more important than the compensation."
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Personal Development
"What is easy is seldom excellent."
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Personal Development
"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."
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Personal Development
"Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives."
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Personal Development
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