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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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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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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I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different.
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Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
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Satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum.
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Directing at seven-and-a-half months pregnant was lots of fun.
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I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.
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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.
