Edith Sitwell Quotes
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
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When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Loneliness comes with life.
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I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
