Helen McCrory Quotes

Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.

Helen McCrory

• Femininity
• Womanhood
• Pinnacle

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• An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

  

  Zach Galligan
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• I'm a fake intellectual.

  

  Adam Brody
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  • Intellectual

• The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Government
  • Duty
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• "What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Prayer
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• My pen moves along the pagelike the snout of a strange animalshaped like a human armand dressed in the sleeve of a loose green sweater.

  

  William Collins
  • Human
  • Green
  • Moves

• I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Happy
  • Child
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• Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Mistake
  • Ends
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• Women play into each other's weaknesses.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Play
  • Weakness

• Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your inner life, from the flow of your own thoughts, and turned far too much towards the outside world.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • World
  • Writing
  • Feels

• Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

  

  Evan Parker
  • Work
  • Possible
  • Breathing

• I'm mostly vegetarian.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Vegetarian
  • Mostly

• Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Smart

• My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.

  

  Georges Bataille
  • House
  • Church
  • Satisfaction

• I don't want my kids going through what I went through - police stopping you, searching you and all that malarkey.

  

  John O'Neill
  • Kids
  • Police
  • Go Through

• To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.

  

  Elizabeth Gould Davis
  • Justice
  • Dreams
  • Image

• Actually, I'm looking forward to being 50. Because to me, that's when a woman is at the pinnacle of her femininity and her womanhood.

  

  Helen McCrory
  • Femininity
  • Womanhood
  • Pinnacle