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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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
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Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them kids pretty fast.
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One of my favorite writers is Chekhov. I love his attitude toward the world. Just accept things for what they are. Don't judge. Be moral as you tell your story, but have no moral at the end. Just look at it.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us
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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.
