Bridget Riley Quotes
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.
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I'm not a mean comic, I don't want to turn anybody off - I just want to give a point of view or my take on things that everyone can laugh at.
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
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I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.
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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
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The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.
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'Wicked' has such a wild fan base - like, a voracious fan base.
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As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.
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I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.
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I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.
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If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.
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I knew I had the ability to become a world champion, I knew I did. I knew I just needed the opportunity.
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The love of a parent, that connection, it's eternal.
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My grandmother's apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.
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Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.
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Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
