Felicity Kendal Quotes
The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.
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You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off pint-sized salesfolk or tie-with-short-sleeved-shirt-wearing adults. But if you are going to answer the door in your own house, what's wrong with being armed? What makes people feel entitled to a kid-friendly greeting when they disturb random strangers in their homes?
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I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
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My parents keep telling me to be thick-skinned in the industry. They tell me how people will put you up on a high platform and then bring you down. They also tell me to not believe in the image created by the hype.
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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
