Charlotte Rae Quotes
My family was very loving but also very superstitious. My mother was always telling us, 'Don't walk under a ladder or you'll have bad luck,' or, 'If you spill salt, be sure and toss a pinch over your shoulder, or you're in trouble.'
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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I always like to tell a story.
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A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.
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The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
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They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don't get the Olympics.
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My family was very loving but also very superstitious. My mother was always telling us, 'Don't walk under a ladder or you'll have bad luck,' or, 'If you spill salt, be sure and toss a pinch over your shoulder, or you're in trouble.'
