"Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize."

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Source : "Sophie Hannah: 'It's surprising how many poems turn out to be about sex'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2014.

Sophie Hannah

#Winning Quotes #People Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer”
“If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and youâ€™d know it all already. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and live your whole life in every way as well as you can: exercise regularly as part of your daily routine, avoid obesity, donâ€™t drink too much, donâ€™t smoke, and donâ€™t get distracted from the real, basic, simple causes of ill health. But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.”
“He moves his thumb in a slow circle over the back of my hand. It is meant to comfort me, but it frustrates me instead. I need to talk to him. I need to look at him.”
“Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.”

Source : Joseph M. Juran (1995). “Managerial Breakthrough: The Classic Book on Improving Management Performance”
“Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is a woman, and he cannot help it. If she descends, he will lower to her level; if she rises, he will rise to her height.”
“People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer...”
“If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.”
“I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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