Penelope Fitzgerald Quotes
The frame of mind, however, is everything. Given that, one can have a very satisfactory party all by oneself.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
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The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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The frame of mind, however, is everything. Given that, one can have a very satisfactory party all by oneself.
