Joan Crawford Quotes

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

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• For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion

• I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Want
  • End

• I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Writing
  • College
  • Take

• We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • World
  • Why
  • War

• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Will
  • Take
  • Ideology

• Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Rocket
  • Abroad
  • Scrutiny

• At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Culture
  • Question

• My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Done
  • Party

• I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Home
  • Values
  • Warrior

• 'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Lost
  • Island

• I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Listening

• I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Different
  • Garden
  • Neighbors

• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talent

• It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Child

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Kind
  • Fall
  • Confident

• When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Work
  • Great
  • You

• In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American troops. But, as I describe in the book, going out on patrol and coming into a village, the soldiers found a stash of documents and decided this was Taliban propaganda.

  

  Yaroslav Trofimov
  • Book
  • American
  • Bad

• When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'

  

  Kate Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • Brother

• We, the American people, owe the nation's police officers our deepest gratitude, our best efforts, and our strong support, for they have done so much for us against such great odds.

  

  Janet Reno
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

  

  Joan Crawford
  • Strong