Jacqueline de Ribes Quotes
The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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It must be horrible having people scared to talk to you. But I think it's kinda cool that I don't really know anyone in that way.
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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
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You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.
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Violence is sometimes a very practical solution but I don't think it is the ultimate solution. Owning a gun is not OK for me. But I could argue both sides. Why shouldn't people own them? I'm not fundamentally against citizens having access to a weapon but I think it has complications. It's probably not the wisest idea. Obviously, it has consequences. Personally, I do not own a weapon.
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I stay standoffish in a sense, in my own personal space, to be able to cope with whatever it is you've got to cope with.
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The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
