Lesley Manville Quotes
I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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I love cycling.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.
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It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.
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And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.
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I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.
