Judith McNaught Quotes
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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I was born free.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained.
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Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
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From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.
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I said roughly that I was starting all over again. I don't think the past buys you anything.
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We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.
