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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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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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 you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.
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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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I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can. No matter how busy we are as a family, we always make that time to have that 'family together' day because we want to. You can't let work and life get in the way of spending time together.
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No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.
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The song tells me what to play.
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Perfection is the enemy of the good when it comes to emergency management.
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I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
