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 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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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.
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In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.
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From a very young age, my father put a lot of fear in me and it worked. I think it's important for children to have fear. I never was curious about drugs or alcohol. I was born in 1960 and back then the older kids were smoking pot. I wasn't interested in that ever and I always had this thing in me, for some reason, that if God was kind enough to give me a healthy body and mind, I was not going to screw it up.
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There are no ordinary cats.
