Hayley Mills Quotes
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
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Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.
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As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.
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It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses.
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The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.
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I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.
