Mel Ferrer Quotes
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
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Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder now.
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
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I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.
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People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
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Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
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I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.
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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
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The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.
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You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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What is worthy or unworthy on the Sabbath day will have to be judged by each of us by trying to be honest with the Lord. On the Sabbath day, we should do what we have to do and what we ought to do in an attitude of worshipfulness and then limit our other activities.
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I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.
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Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
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I have to strip away all the layers when I'm writing the song. I have to cut through all these layers of years of putting up walls and putting protective layers around myself.
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Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.
