Ninette de Valois Quotes
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
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My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
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If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.
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I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.
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I see my actors as my collaborators.
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Classical ballet will never die.
