Audrey Hepburn Quotes
I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.
Quotes to Explore
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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Keep your eye on the ball.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
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Its appearance is constantly changing. It might sound strange to say this of an inanimate building, but every time you see the Taj, it looks different. The color of its white marble changes throughout the day, from the waxy yellow at dawn through to the pastel blue-gray of a full moon.
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In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Usually this desire for family limitation has been laid to economic pressure... It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
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I've always played it my way. I failed media training, for example.
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I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
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I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.
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Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.
