Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
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The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.
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I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
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Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.
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My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
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The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
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Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
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We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
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As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.
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Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.
