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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I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands.
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Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
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I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance to do one in my first film.
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I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.
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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne.
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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.
