John Caudwell Quotes
I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I'm hugely patriotic.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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There's something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are able to throw the behavior of the men into a particular relief and be playful within a slightly larger-than-life way with it.
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I grew up in the countryside riding horses, and I also ride every holiday in Spain, which is where I was born. It's a big part of my life.
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I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.
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Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.
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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.
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I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.
