Hayley Mills Quotes
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
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'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.
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The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.
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I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'll memorize it. I don't even practice the acting. I'll just do it the day, and it will just come to me.
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Music is split up now into little pockets.
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Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
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We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
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Everyone knew I didn't want to do it, but I had to, ... and I don't particularly want to do more.
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Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
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That could sound arrogant, I guess, but sometimes I feel like I have a bit of a Zelig thing. I'll blend in wherever. I'm from the South, so I'll have a Southern accent when I'm home. But if I'm up here in New York, I have a British accent.
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I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting.
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I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even get my mind around it to write about it.
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Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.
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I have a horror of being in confined spaces. Potholing is my idea of hell.
