Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes
Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.
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There is a fine line in the Third World between half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe and half a dozen customs officials waiting for you to offer them a bribe so they can throw you in jail.
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I feel for food more than I could crave a woman. And that's the truth!
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In my practice as surgeon, I am impressed by the alarming increase of cancer cases brought to my notice; an increase, which in the light of the general hygienic and sanitary improvements of our time, can point to no other cause than the indulgence in certain foodstuffs detrimental to normal life of the body.
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There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
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Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?
