Joan Collins Quotes
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
Lady Starlight -
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
Daniel D. Palmer -
It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
Laetitia Casta -
I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
Forest Whitaker -
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
Hank Aaron -
If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
Wanda Sykes
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
Harold Prince -
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari -
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey -
Everybody has a story... and a scream.
Rachel Roberts -
The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
Oleg Deripaska
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If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
Lady Gaga -
I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Mallory Ortberg -
The best thing about being from Britain is that it's a melting pot of cultures, characters, and creativity. I couldn't imagine coming from anywhere else.
Gabriella Wilde -
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
Nathan Myhrvold -
And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
Laetitia Casta -
I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.
Gareth Gates
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I was particularly happy to do a potential franchise where I was not putting on a mask or a pair of tights.
Jason Clarke -
Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of dying for it.
Du Mu -
Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Self-indulgence takes many forms; and we should bear in mind that there may be a sullen sensuality as well as a gay one.
Arthur Helps -
I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.
Linda Lavin -
My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.
Joan Collins