Vivien Leigh Quotes
My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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We will absolutely respect the law until we are in government at the national level and can change it.
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It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
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From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.
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I love sprinting, but I hate long-distance running. Isn't that funny?
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Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
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My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
