Edith Sitwell Quotes
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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Let us have peace.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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I fell in love with doing yoga.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
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I'm lucky: I've got great photogenic eyes. You're up and running if you've got that and one brain cell to attach it to.
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I need somebody who can at least stand up to me and slug it out, toe to toe. I don't mean a physical battle. I mean a man who would lay me, and when he was done, I'd say: "Oh, brother, I've been laid." Or if we had an argument, he would stand up and engage in intellectual combat and not go off and mope in the corner, or take reprisals, or go to drink.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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Dogs, to me, are like children. They are the closest thing to God. They are so pure in their love, and all they do is aim to please.
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I've been an art collector since the Sixties, and I kept it very separate from my showbusiness career. I've had art shows since the early Nineties, a museum show that travelled to four countries. I've had three or four art books; it's just another way I have to tell stories.
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I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
