Joyce Grenfell Quotes
I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
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Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.
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I have three closets in my bedroom.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.
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I like Everton. If I'm going to cheer for that kind of football team, I'm going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion.
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I don't need to speak about N'Golo; everyone knows about him. He's everywhere. I think, sometimes when I'm on the pitch, I see him twice. One on the left, one on the right. I think I'm playing with twins!
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It didn’t matter that they were terrible at being parents; they were also very rich, which meant they could pay other people to love Alec.
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Picasso was telling Madame C- that he could paint anywhere and anyhow. That nothing in the world could stop him. That even if he were imprisoned, he would draw on the dust-covered prison walls and on the floor, with his fingers dripped in his own spit. He said he could paint then and there if he wanted to, or if he felt like it.
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El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.
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Te asusta el vacío, ¡y abres más los ojos!
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I think everyone who's successful consistently is ambitious.
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I don't really care where I go because wherever I go, they're going to get a very talented, driven guy that's going to get every inch of his potential out, max everything I have in my body out.
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You can dramatically affect the expression of your metabolism and your biochemistry by the way you eat and the way you live.
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I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie.
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The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones.
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It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.
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I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.
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Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.
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I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.
