Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
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I am passionate about acting. 'Girls in our family are not allowed to act' is quite an outdated thought to have. They did it till my mother, but now no more.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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My best friend is my husband.
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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
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Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.
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As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.
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At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.
