William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw Quotes
I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
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I will keep working hard!
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.
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When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
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If a role isn't different, it's not worth doing.
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I was living in Evanston, Illinois and I was taking theater classes down the street, and our theater school was kind of affiliated with an agency, and so I went on one audition for whatever that movie was, 'My Stepmother is an Alien' or whatever it was, and 'Roseanne' was my second audition.
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I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'
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Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.
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I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little amazed by the phenomenon, and to find that the amazement has something of the quality of delight.
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It's a weird day and age when you can tire of icons simply by overexposure.
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A call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin.
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I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
