Tilda Swinton Quotes
Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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People are always alert to any change and skeptical by nature.
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I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.
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When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation
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How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.
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I must be the only person in 'Strictly' history who's actually put on weight during rehearsals.
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Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.
