Vanessa Redgrave Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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I don't do meetings.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.
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Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.
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I'm black, and it's a very important part of what I am. I'm not embarrassed about it.
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The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone past Andy Warhol and all those clever, arty and witty things that were done and said in the sixties...the fifteen minutes, and so on. Now your celebrities don't have to do anything, they're just voted in. And that shocks me.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
