Joan Collins Quotes
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction to 'vote as you shot' kept the party dominant for decades; from 1868 to 1912, only one Democrat - Grover Cleveland - won the White House.
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God - God's the wrong word - goddess or nature will conspire to transform you in a way you couldn't have imagined.
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Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome.
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Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, it's up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. It's all got to get done; how you do it is up to you. You need a lot of self-discipline, but luckily, I have it.
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Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
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And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.
