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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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
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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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Hollywood loves pre-validation. Even if someone has a property that was first published as a comic book that sold only 5,000 copies, for Hollywood, that is a stamp of approval. 'Oh, it was already published in another medium? Must be good!' They get assurance from knowing that someone else already took the risk.
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Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.
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When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!
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I have a restaurant in Sri Lanka, and I feel keen to open up something here in Mumbai and bring Sri Lankan food here in India. I feel we have so much in common, but we have a different cuisine, and I am sure people will enjoy here.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
