86 Quotes by Glenda Jackson

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    If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from.

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    I’m the world’s worst bearer of grudges. I’m sure I’ll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.

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    You’d think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good.

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    What interested me, was that as we age, those seemingly unbreakable barriers that define us, our gender, they begin to crack, to blur; they're not absolutes anymore.

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    Anything I could have done that was legal to get Margaret Thatcher's government out I was prepared to do. I could not believe what she was doing to this country.

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    If a woman is successful, then she's deemed to be the exception that proves the rule. If a woman fails, well, we're all failures. That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn't seem to me to have changed an iota.

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    I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

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