Maggie Smith Quotes
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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You have to be yourself.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
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The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
