Julia Child (Julia Carolyn Child) Quotes
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.
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I always played to win.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.
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I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
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Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
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The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.
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I have so many friends and obligations, and I want to go out and support people. But we eat at home.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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You need to know life is on your side.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
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I started my career because if I'd have done anything else, I would regret it. I truly feel this career chose me more than I chose it. I would say that it's for something greater than me with a little of the creative fulfillment that comes with it splashed in there.
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As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.
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In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.
