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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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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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'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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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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Everything about the studio was enormous. You walked through the gates of iron, and it was palatial looking. The first day, I was introduced to Clark Gable. He said, 'Hello, kid. Welcome to MGM. I'm just leaving.'
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It was that chemistry. And was the fact that he was president part of that chemistry? I don't know. Maybe. Probably. But it was - I was there because there was chemistry. I wasn't there because, oh, this is the president.
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There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.
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Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?
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Off the bat, I played bad. But I didn't let that get to me. I just kept scrambling.
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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.
