Joan Fontaine Quotes
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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.
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Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
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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.
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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.
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The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
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The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.
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Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.
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You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.
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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.
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It's not possible to forget pictures. Anyone who works in them thinks of them constantly.
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There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
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I enjoy helping. I like doing benefits and things like that, but don't feel the need to be thanked or even meet the people I am doing the benefit for.
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I noticed that 'Lost' had sort of worn out our welcome; because of 'Lost,' audiences were no longer being patient with slow reveals: they wanted answers quickly, and they wanted story to develop much faster.
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We have seen the extent of the desecration and destruction of the facilities of the finest institution in the country.
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I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.
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During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult to do a solo project.
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If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.
