"My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race."

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Source : Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited

Jill Tweedie

#Change Quotes #Time Quotes #Children Quotes

“Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.”
“Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.”
“They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.”
“Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.”
“Happily ever after is a concept I'll never believe in.”
“The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.”
“I set little goals and as I hit those little goals I know they're moving me forward.”
“When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.”

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