Joan Collins Quotes
I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect.
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When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.
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The craziest thing I did to get a guy to notice me was going out with his best friend. It worked - he did notice me - but I don't recommend it.
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I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.
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My grandfather once said, having watched me one entire afternoon, prancing and leaping and cavorting, 'this child will either end up on stage or in jail.' Fortunately, I took the easy route.
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I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.
