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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For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.
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There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.
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I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work!
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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I wake up feeling clear and energized in the morning What is most profound for me about this light eating pattern is the flow of cosmic energy I feel coursing through my body. During the day it feels as if joy is simply running through every cell independent of external factors.
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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.
