Joan Collins Quotes
When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at myself in the mirror long and hard and then end up removing something. Whether it's a belt, bracelet or a bauble, less is always more.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
Paris ain't much of a town.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the audiences. I have women who come out and support my movies, and that is a huge demographic for me, which is great because some actors don't have a female base at all.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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I've certainly auditioned for big budget studio films. I don't know if it's because there's so much money involved, but a lot of times the pressure overwhelms me and engulfs me. I end up falling apart in the audition.
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The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
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My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.
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When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at myself in the mirror long and hard and then end up removing something. Whether it's a belt, bracelet or a bauble, less is always more.
