Edmund Morris Quotes
The reason that he knew so much about everything, I found, was that wherever he went he got right in with the people.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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I love books.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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'The Yes Album,' of course, was the album that put Yes' name on the worldwide stage.
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I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.
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People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.
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We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.
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My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.
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The reason that he knew so much about everything, I found, was that wherever he went he got right in with the people.
