Imelda Staunton Quotes
I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
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A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.
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She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
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I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
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I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.
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'Gunday' might not be the best film of my life, but it's been a life-altering film for me.
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The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.
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We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
