Eartha Kitt Quotes
I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I'm feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them - simple but graphic.
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Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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A wild thing may say wild things.
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Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.