Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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Then you will do away with the only social meetings at the Art Academy in London we have, the only occasion on which we all come together in an easy, unrestrained manner. When we have no varnishing days, we shall not know one another.
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Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.
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Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.
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I can picture the character in my head, and the voice just comes out.
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I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.
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Some things I don't compromise on. Health care is one of them.
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Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.
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It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far ahead of all other cultures and civilizations around the world.
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Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you're going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they're not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.
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You can have a very bad end with Parkinson's, but on the other hand, you can be like me, because I'm lucky. I'm not having a bad end.
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The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
