Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
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I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.
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The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.
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One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
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I feel satisfied after achieving something difficult.
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Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
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I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don't really utilize because they don't have confidence in themselves about who they are and what they can do.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.
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I’m just trying to get people to understand horses. You have to be consistent and logical, use your brain, and not be emotional and not lose your temper.
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When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.
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Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.
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I don't want children anyway,' Caz says. 'So I'm getting nothing out of this whatsoever. I want my entire reproductive system taken out, and replaced with spare lungs, for when I start smoking. I want that option. This is pointless.
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I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
