Edith Evans Quotes
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
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Act because you love to act.
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Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
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The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
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How can I tell them that I love them if I'm no longer there?
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
