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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Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.
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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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I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called 'Grownups,' which went out on the BBC, and overnight this new career opened up.
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I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.
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A game like 'Myst' may be a gorgeous slide show that preserves its beauty at the expense of speed. A game like 'Doom' sacrifices almost everything for action. But the eye soon adjusts: the degree of detail more than adequately conveys infinite claustrophobic labyrinths populated by howling monsters.
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I never solicited a major label and I certainly wouldn't now.
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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.
