Jackie Kennedy Quotes
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
