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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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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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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My mom is just authentically herself all the time. She loves herself. She loves her sense of humor. She brings people in when she talks. She brings people in when she laughs. Watching her, I think that that's when I first learned and was encouraged to be myself and to sort of love and live in that way.
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I think the big thing with O.J. - I've known him since he was in high school - and he's a great kid, loves the game of basketball.
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I deserved a 'T'. I was trying to get our guys (motivated). It was a good call.
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If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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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.
