Imelda May Quotes
I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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I want people to get over my weight and the loss of it. It's been years, and I am sure people can find better things to talk about.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
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When you say, 'I'm going to sing it once, and everyone is going to hear it forever,' that's kind of frightening.
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Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your own journey, your own way of telling it?
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I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.
