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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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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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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Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
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Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
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We're subject to the same forces of capitalism that have built the entire American economy. Strong returns induce more capital flow, which creates more competitors, and you have to evolve and get better, or you die.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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In grandchildren I am the richest man that lives to-day: for I select my grandchildren, whereas all other grandfathers have to take them as they come, good, bad, and indifferent.
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Classical ballet will never die.
