Maggie Smith Quotes
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and in those instances, I generally have seen through inaccurate coverage of it.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I was never really good in school.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
