Joan Collins Quotes
I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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We don't want to be a design line. Ultimately, we want to be a platform that houses many design aesthetics.
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There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.
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If you're a good Amish girl, you're courting, you have three or four different beaus, and you go out and stay out all night. That's just their tradition. They date under the covering of night. No one knows who they're dating or seeing until two weeks before they're going to be married. It's how they've done it for 300 years.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter.
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I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.
