Joan Collins Quotes
I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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If another actor gets a good role, I'm furious.
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I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
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I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.
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It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.
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This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.
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I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.