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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As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
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Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.
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Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.
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There are no ordinary cats.
