Imelda Staunton Quotes
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People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.
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In order to survive, you have to be alone with yourself to regenerate the spirit.
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If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges.
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I took a lot of writing courses.
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Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
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I've always liked new writing.
