Felicity Kendal Quotes
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
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His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't seem at all surprising that he should be able to pull things from his dreams. In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.
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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.
