Vivien Leigh Quotes
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I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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When I was young," I say, beginning with the most painful words an old man knows.
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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
