Lauren Bacall I’m not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I’ve built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way. – Lauren Bacall Built Quotes Flunkies Quotes Functioned Quotes Lot Quotes Preceding Quotes Protect Quotes Suppose Quotes Time Quotes Tough Quotes Veneer Quotes In actual fact, I’ve never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much. It’s just a fact of life that I don’t think I’ve ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don’t know why.
David Miliband The 1970s – I was ten in 1975 – were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic. – David Miliband
Carlos Ghosn You don’t implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you’re going to do this change and what’s going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you’re not going to do it. – Carlos Ghosn
Andy Partridge Where I’ve arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there’s a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better. – Andy Partridge
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