Marlene Dietrich Quotes
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
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The world is always in movement.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I know nothing about technology.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.
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I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.
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Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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It always cracks me up when program directors or music directors or companies will say, 'Well, we did research, and we interviewed 25 people in our focus group, and this is what they said.' And I'm like, 'I've talked to 25 people in two hours! I talk to 50, 60, 70 people a night! Five or six days a week!'
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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
