Boris Vian Quotes
The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.

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I've never been a partier.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I love my sleep.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
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Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run
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Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.
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Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.