Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (Dusty Springfield) Quotes
It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
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When 'Lost' was over, we expected that there'd be some people who'd really like it and other people who wouldn't. The Emmy nominations are an indication to us that there were a fair number of people who did like the way we concluded our story.
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I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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I don't want to die an old lady.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.
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I love the challenge of taking colors that are totally disparate and making them work together in an interesting way.
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Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?
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It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.
