Wendy Hiller Quotes
She had to be a very strong woman to support her husband through all those ups and downs.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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The world is always in movement.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
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Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
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You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.
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It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
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Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.
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A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.
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She had to be a very strong woman to support her husband through all those ups and downs.
