Joyce Grenfell Quotes
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
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We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
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That was also my nickname in high school.
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I don't want to go to another roller-coaster ride of a movie. If I want that, I'll go to Magic Mountain. I'm really interested in the young directors that are doing different things in cinema. I think the movies people will hold onto are the Rushmores and the Being John Malkoviches. Those are the kind of films I want to do; that's what I'm passionate about.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.
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The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
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I wouldn't know how to retire.
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War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
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My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.
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If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.
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And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.
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Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
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I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.
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There's no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor.
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Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
