Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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I can only control what I can control.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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I love my mom and dad.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
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I think a lot of bands these days expect instant success without putting the work into it. MTV and the like allows bands to be seen by millions without having to treck across the world, and while it has it’s place, I don’t think you can replace the experience you get by playing live.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
