Vivien Leigh Quotes
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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Europe can be saved.
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.
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Our schedule allows us to play our traditional local rivals, as well as some national powers, before we get into the conference schedule, ... We travel to Duke and Virginia Tech, play a full slate at the Garden and play in the Holiday Festival. This will give St. John's fans a great opportunity to follow our team, which features a lot of new faces this year.
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If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume
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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
