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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I enjoy Saturday night racing.
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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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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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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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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.
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If there's anyone out there who still doubts that Ireland is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our ancestors is alive in our time, who still questions our capacity to restore ourselves, reinvent ourselves and prosper, today is your answer.
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Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
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Classical ballet will never die.
