Natalie Cole Quotes
The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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The fan support was the greatest. It's everything.
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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
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A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending for her, too. But it is not the same.
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T.V. is the place to do the kind of films that were done in the 40s and 50s: the little guy against the system. There are so many opportunities in T.V. to do more character pieces. Everything is so hard-edged in features.
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Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are necessary.
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
