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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Charity knew there was nothing more coarse and common than an afternoon in bed with a total stranger -- but the lad installing the telephone had a grin that made her heart turn flips.
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The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.
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It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a time and watched the desert open up before me again and again. I saw the sun set and rise at the Grand Canyon, and I sang out over the cliffs, picked up tumble weeds along the way and threw them in the back of my car.
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Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!
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Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
