Marion Chesney (M.C. Beaton) Quotes
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
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In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
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During what years should a child be introduced to better ways of giving and receiving criticisms – to what I call 'relationship language'? Before school age. The best teacher? Parents.
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The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.
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I think the first film you do with your instincts because you haven't learned with another director or you haven't worked on other films, so you tend to do things your own way. I think what I learned the most was to take your time, to try to be less rushed into things and have some distance with what you're doing.
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Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
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Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
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Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.
