Britt Ekland Quotes
I have always worked and I would say I'm generous with money - if somebody needed anything I would always give it to them.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
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When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
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In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.
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If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.
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I don't interfere with regulators.
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I have always worked and I would say I'm generous with money - if somebody needed anything I would always give it to them.
