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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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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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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Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
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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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When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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We're Americans - in times of crisis, we step up.
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Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.
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I don’t have an issue with serving in the military per se, but serving in the South African army suppressing black people just didn’t seem like a really good way to spend time.
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No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.
