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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It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
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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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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.
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I want to become a Hollywood film star. I genuinely would love to be in some movies.
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And Republican women have always been the backbone of our party. We do the work, we are strong believers in conservative values. Having more of those voices in place at a state level is going to be a great improvement for us as a party.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.
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The captain thing was really an honor, and it was really flattering for me. It was really something that I didn't expect, and I would say that was the highlight of my career so far, being elected captain by my peers.
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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.
