Hayley Mills Quotes
My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.
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People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
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My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.
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In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
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We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.
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I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
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I was really excited because I had never ever in my life done anything like this [Romeo + Juliette], and at such a young age it was like, "Wow, my dreams are coming true, I'm already in a movie at the age of 12."
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.
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My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.
