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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All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.
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The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.
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I got traded in the middle of an injury - my ankle injury - so in '09, I came back and just kind of flukishly had some success. I was far, far from healthy. I came back in 2010 still nursing that ankle injury. Yeah, it was a rough, rough go. My first few years in Chicago were not much fun.
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Make that money run like honey on your tongue.
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Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.
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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.
