Marisa Berenson Quotes
I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.
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There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
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Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.
