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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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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You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.
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I do really silly dancing. I love dancing, but I'm not cool when I dance. It's not about my moves, it's not about how cool I am, it's not about how slick I look on the dance floor, it's about having a great time.
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Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.
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How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't. There's a hierarchy. Why do I pick out that thing, that thing, that thing?
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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.
