"What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again."

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Source : "Minister's second chance for stardom". Interview with Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2004.

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

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“I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.”
“We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we treat each other - before we learn mathematics and computers and science in school, and languages and all of this, the basis of it: What is it to be a human? What responsibility do you have?”
“I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.”
“Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to one. It is just ridiculous. But sometimes if you can hit it just right and get everything out of the way, something will resonate on multiple levels.”
“The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection”
“Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?”
“Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.”
“The French are very individualistic.”

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