Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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There is no truly global justice.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
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There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.
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Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.
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Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business of committee meetings and PR releases; you might as well storm a butterfly den with a klieg light.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.
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I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.
