Melina Mercouri Quotes
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!
Mandy Bujold -
I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.
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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
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I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
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I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.
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Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
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I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
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Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.
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I've always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I'm not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience.
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That's the greatest thing: an experience you can grow from.
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There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.
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Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa.
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Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
