Joan Fontaine Quotes

If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

Joan Fontaine

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• I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Looking

• Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • City
  • Crazy
  • Same

• Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Layers
  • Vine

• I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Earth

• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Truth

• Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Black

• I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Work
  • School
  • Experience

• There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Things
  • Sound
  • Melody

• Flowers are happy things.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Happy
  • Flowers
  • Gardening

• I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Amazing
  • Creative
  • Partner

• Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Movie

• I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Like
  • Director
  • Frustrated

• We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

  

  Barry White
  • Said
  • Company
  • Ready

• I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Funny

• I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Free

• The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Mind
  • Voice
  • Themselves

• If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Family
  • Want
  • Poetry

• The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.

  

  Emma Stone
  • World
  • Movie
  • Parents

• Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy.

  

  George M. Whitesides
  • Good
  • Science
  • Freedom

• Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.

  

  Pete Rose
  • Why
  • She
  • Book

• I've never had to do anything I didn't believe in. Sometimes that meant being poor and waitressing a while longer, but I've always stuck with it.

  

  Linda Kozlowski
  • Believe

• In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the further back must lie in time when it was acquired by its ancestors.

  

  Ernst Haeckel
  • Development
  • Characters
  • Ancestors

• If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.

  

  Joan Fontaine