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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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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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 go to movies. I blend in.
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You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
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I'm saying there's plenty of money out there for great consumer entrepreneurs with great consumer products attacking really big markets.
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High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
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It requires a different holistic approach and a recognition that it's not simply a question of stepping into China's shoes. Our 'Make in India' has to be different from China's in the sense that we have to do a 'taal-mel' or 'jugalbandi' of our IT skills that exist and our evolving manufacturing skills and become intelligent manufacturers.
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Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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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.
