Ngaio Marsh Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
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When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
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Shout out to my boy Guwop. We came in the game, and we learned from the best.
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You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends.
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One way to quantify the immigrant contribution to the overall economy is to measure their share of the U.S. economic output. One such examination for the years 2009-2011 found that immigrants contributed 14.7 percent of the total economic output.
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I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
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I was excited to turn 60.
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If you're a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When you're on television, you're removed from that.
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But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
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The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.
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No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.
