Imelda May Quotes
With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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Politics is a good thing!
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
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I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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My dream collaboration would probably be Sam Smith.
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With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
