Dorothy Kilgallen Quotes
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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Truth is a tendency.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.
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I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.
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My personal style really started in my teens when I gained purchasing power to actually buy my own damn clothes. For so long, my parents dictated what I wore, which largely was their way of containing me within the gender binary.
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I am proud of the fact that people consider me a style icon.
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I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.
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I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.
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I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.
