Mel Ferrer Quotes
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People always want to doubt you.
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.
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I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.
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Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. It's all good.
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
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You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.
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I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
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The first victim in journalism today is proximity. I know I've used that word a lot. Because of foreign budgets, newspapers have consolidated, and journalists now cover dozens of countries at a time. It is physically not possible for one person to understand and live the unique sets of experiences in all these places in honest and meaningful ways. Outlets used to send journalists to places like Congo for months at a time, and they were stationed there for months or years. There was a sense of immersive reporting, and that has been a casualty of the shift in news over the past years.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.
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How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?
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I've acted just to get to directing.
