Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
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When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
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I studied archaeology.
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The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear. (p. 18)
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We've shared so much laughter, so many tears. We're a spiritual bond that grows stronger each year. We're not sisters by birth, but we knew from the start, something put us together to be sisters by heart.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
