William Howard Taft Quotes
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When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
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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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A busybody's work is never done.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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I received free health care.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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I never read the tabloids.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
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They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.
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There is a large element of me in every role I do.
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I spent many years trying to fit in and do things the way I thought I was supposed to - trying to be perceived the way I thought people wanted to see me. I grew up in a very religious household and wasn't taught to feel comfortable or good about my sexuality, so it feels great to be able to say things the way I want to say them.
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Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn't just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.
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We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
