Joan Collins Quotes
I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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I don't do meetings.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to be really smart, and you need to be taught in a carefully thought out, methodical sequence.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
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What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
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We would completely delegitimise what we are doing if we allow politics to interfere with our work.
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I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
