Jeanne Calment Quotes
I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.
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I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.
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Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'
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I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.
