Jessie Matthews Quotes
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I decided there and then to sue the bastards.
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A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.
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Real luxury is customization.
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I invited a group of students to my studio to expose them to both the creative and business sides of the fashion industry. It was fun because the group was so bright and full of curiosity. They asked really challenging questions about all aspects of the business and absorbed so much information so quickly.
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Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices.
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People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.
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The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.
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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
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Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds.
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Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
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You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.
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I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.
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I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.
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Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.
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The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.
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When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.
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And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.
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Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
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Total truth is necessary. You must live by what you say.
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She knew that one extraordinary thing was bound to make the ordinariness of her life all the more painful.
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Dreams grow if you grow.
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Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and 'I hope horrible things don't happen to my family,' but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.
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When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.
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I dreaded doing close-ups.
