Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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I adapt my workouts to what my needs are.
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I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.
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I have been very pleased at the response we have got for 'SVSC.'
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Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.
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I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced.
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I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
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Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
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One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.
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Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.
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Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.
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An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
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... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
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Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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Alfred Nobel believed that the destructiveness of dynamite would put an end to war. He deeply believed that the tragic reality of mass carnage would achieve results which all the preaching of peace and goodwill had so far failed to achieve. His prophecy now must gain fulfillment. Recoiling from the abyss of nuclear extermination, the human family will finally abandon war. May we learn from barbaric and bloody deeds of the twentieth century and bestow the gift of peace to the next millennium. Perhaps in that way we shall redeem some measure of respect from generations yet to come. Having achieved peace, in the sonorous phrase of Martin Luther King, Jr. spoken here twenty-one years ago, human beings will then "rise to the majestic heights of moral maturity".
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Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
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Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.
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There are no ordinary cats.
