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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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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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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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
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When you're on top, you're on top.
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There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.
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I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.
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We only do well the things we like doing.
