Billie Whitelaw Quotes
I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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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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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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The Commission's findings underscore that the nation is still vulnerable to attack and that we must move more quickly to make us safer. We must take the Commission's work and use it to make certain that such horrific attacks never occur again.
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Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace.
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If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.
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I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.
