Britt Ekland Quotes
My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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To be is to do.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I was very rebellious.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.
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On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.
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My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
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My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.
