Felicity Kendal Quotes
In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.
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I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.
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We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.
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'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.
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When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
