Georgette Heyer Quotes
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I would love to do some theater.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
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Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.
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I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
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Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
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I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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When people fear surveillance, whether it exists or not, they grow afraid to speak their minds and hearts freely to their government or to anyone else.
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Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.
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What the hell, what are these guys thinking about? Can’t you get these guys back in the box?
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What defines a leader is his preoccupation with the future. In his head he carries a vivid image of what the future could be, and this image drives him on.
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The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.
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Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.
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I want to keep playing good golf.
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'Battle: Los Angeles' - I've got to say this was easily one of the most physically trying things that I've ever done in my life because I play a Marine in the film, and they had us training with real live Marines for, like, three weeks. It gave me a whole new respect for just the armed forces, period.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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If you win games, at the top, there's no pressure to change. You change when you have to change. You change when you don't win anymore.
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The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.
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What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
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The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.