Jean Simmons Quotes
If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I've been on a tweeting mission.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.
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As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.
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You know what the trick of a long life is, Sharpe? Stay out of range.
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True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
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I'm sure there's a subconscious 'go for it' thing with turning 50. You want to do as much as possible and there are thoughts of how little time we have on the planet. For a lot of musicians in their 50s, the best days are behind them. I'd like to try and show that there is a future.
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If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.
