Billie Whitelaw Quotes
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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One of the biggest concerns that many voters have with both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but particularly with Ms. Clinton, is the sense that she uses government power to advance her personal and political interests. She is the very status quo. Americans want that changed.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.
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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.
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I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double.
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I usually start my day with a light breakfast of fruit and eggs and take granola bars with me to eat after practice. Lunch and dinner usually consist of chicken over pasta or rice and beans.
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There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.
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I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.
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I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.
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It feels like it's just starting in America and the UK. It's great to have a loyal fanbase in Australia and New Zealand. People in America say how polished our band are, but that didn't happen overnight; that came from doing all this touring back home.
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To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.
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I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.
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Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.
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Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.
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I'm a bit of a recluse, very fond of my own company.
