Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (Dusty Springfield) Quotes
I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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There are no rules to writing a song.
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My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.
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I'm not going to doubt my life.
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Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Creating sustainable jobs means doubling down on Baltimore's formidable strengths.
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Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.
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To the jury foreman in the second trial: 'Mr. Rodriguez? Can I ask you a question? What do you think a grown man up in his 40s is doing sleeping with one little boy after the next, all by himself, locked up in his bedroom, every night? That doesn't bother you? It bothers me.'
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You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.
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No descubras, que puede no haber nada. Y nada no se vuelve a cubrir.
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When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.
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Movies are very subjective.
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On a hanger, no dress is sexy. It's just fabric on a hanger.
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For me, coming from the women's movement, politics is not just about parties and parliament. There is politics in our private space and in gender relations as well. Wherever there's power, there's politics.
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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
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It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
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I think of myself as a healing artist.
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A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
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I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.
