Felicity Kendal Quotes
My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
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I haven't had many relationships.
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You can't take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different.
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A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
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But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
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My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.
