Dirk Bogarde Quotes
The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.
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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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I started out doing musicals.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.
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I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.
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Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.
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Stage outfits are loud, outspoken, glamorous, fancy, and very different from normal day-to-day clothing. Therefore, by its nature, it is experimental.
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Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.
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The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.
