She afterwards declined to serve in Iain Duncan Smith's Shadow Cabinet ( although she indicated on the television programme When Louis Met ..., prior to the leadership contest, that she wished to retire to the backbenches anyway ).

She was offered the role of Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, but declined.

She was later released and after returning to San Francisco spoke out against deprograming but declined to press legal charges against her parents.

) She was offered the chance to compose the score for James Cameron's 1997 feature film Titanic, but she declined.

She politely declined the cameo, and claimed the original " Kong " to be the true " King ".

She wanted to have the watch engraved with the words, " To Pork from the O ' Hara's — Well done good and faithful servant ," but Pork declined the offer.

She declined the request-she would not like to interfere in political games and gave the evasive answer, " Nobody saw Nicky killed " and therefore there is a chance.

She declined in order to care for her husband, and Debbie Reynolds played the part.

She met McCartney who declined to give her any of his own manuscripts for the book.

" She declined to specify the type of cancer he had.

She declined and moved to Stockholm, learning to become a typist and stenographer ( she would later write most of her drafts in stenography ).

She declined the surgery, and died a few months later.

She then tried to persuade Paschal to change his vote, but convinced he had a fair shot with John, he and Neleh declined her offer.

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 ), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César.

She remained popular in her district and well liked in the United States during the 1920s, but this period of success is generally believed to have declined in the following decades.

She subsequently declined into mental illness.

She was offered opera roles by several European houses but, due to her lack of acting experience, Anderson declined all of these offers.

She declined the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, allegedly citing the unsavory nature of some elements of the script and saying there were certain lines she could not allow herself to speak.

She declined offers from the university to become directly affiliated with it, including an offer from Albion Small, chair of the Department of Sociology, of a graduate faculty position.

She declined in order to maintain her independent role outside of academia.

She suggested that she be photographed sitting up in it for a feature in the magazine Country Living-this idea was politely declined.

She has accepted honorary degrees but has declined to make speeches.

She sold EDventure Holdings to CNET Networks in 2004, but left CNET in January 2007 after CNET declined to continue her PC Forum conference.

She declined to publicly discuss the relationship or her sexual orientation at the time.

" She applied, but was declined attendance at the Art Institute, and would attend UCLA on a scholarship.

She didn't want to be the only one with a stove in her room, especially as her life span was nearly run out anyway, and she insisted that Hope have the heater.

She had run out of things to say to Noel and so she told him a story about " four little rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter.

She had maintained throughout the show's run that she was never diagnosed with either anorexia or bulimia, nor was she a user of illegal drugs.

She had run away from home, intent on making a career in dance, and aged 18 joined the chorus line at the London Palladium.

She tried to run away, but the blood of the tree had touched her skin and she found her feet rooted to the spot.

She campaigned during her husband's unsuccessful 1978 run for the United States Congress and later his successful Texas gubernatorial campaign.

She did say, however, that she had never dreamed that he would run for office.

She played Lady Macbeth on Broadway opposite Maurice Evans in a production directed by Margaret Webster that ran for 131 performances in 1941, the longest run of the play in Broadway history.

She tells Peter and " the beloved disciple ," who run to the tomb and find the grave-clothes, then go home.

She drives away in a tearful huff, and Alvin, who had started to run short of food, cooks and eats the deer, then mounts the antlers above the rear doorway of his trailer as a tribute to the deer and the human sustenance it had provided.

She went on to comment that reviving memories of a suit that the majority of the public had forgotten after the initial burst of publicity, commenting " when you run these ads defending, defending, defending, sometimes people think, " Well, wait a minute, why are they trying so hard to defend themselves?

Alexandra was devoted to her children: " She was in her glory when she could run up to the nursery, put on a flannel apron, wash the children herself and see them asleep in their little beds.

She confounded expectations with a run to the quarterfinals on her least favourite surface, including a come-from-behind victory over Kim Clijsters in the fourth round.

She finds out that her grandfather was Moray Black, a robber on the run, and that the cult he set up is based on lies.

She berates Eddie for letting Queenie run away and tells him to go after her.

She later reprised this role for the play's run in London's West End.

She tutored English and Latin and worked part-time as a typist for a French collaborationist newspaper, Les nouveaux temps, run by Jean Luchaire.

She appeared in the stage production, Miss Moffat, a musical adaptation of her film The Corn is Green, but after the show was panned by the Philadelphia critics during its pre-Broadway run, she cited a back injury and abandoned the show, which closed immediately.

She was asked to stay in Poland and join the Polish national athletic team ; she also continued to run in various American challenges and games.

She injured her knee after wiping out on a training run just three weeks before the Olympics.

Evelyn Ashford ( born April 15, 1957 in Shreveport, Louisiana ) is a retired American athlete, the 1984 Olympic champion in the 100 m. She has run under the 11 second barrier over 30 times and was the first to run under 11 seconds in an Olympic Games.

* " She would run up the stairs and then a new set of curtains " is a variety of zeugma called a syllepsis.

She laid a geis upon him to run off with her, with their long flight from Fionn aided by Aonghus Óg.

She did a two year run in N. C. Hunter's Waters of the Moon ( Haymarket, 1951 – 52 ), alongside Sybil Thorndike and Edith Evans.