Britt Ekland Quotes
Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
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My mother taught me to read.
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Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
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I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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I pretty much move around wherever I like.
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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What do cells do when they see a broken piece of DNA? Cells don't like such breaks. They'll do pretty much anything they can to fix things up. If a chromosome is broken, the cells will repair the break using an intact chromosome.
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Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
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Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
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It's very nice to meet the people who read my books.
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What's that comment about every actor being a waiter who is out of a job? I did a lot of waitressing, and I loved it because I love getting to know people from different places.
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I used to be a huge collector, and my big thing was stickers.
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Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.
