Maggie Smith Quotes
People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
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I just can't read music.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
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'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.
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Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue.
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
