Lee Radziwill Quotes
I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.
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What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.
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'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
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It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
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There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.
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People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.
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People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.
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My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
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If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
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I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!
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We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.
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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.
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When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.
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I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.
