Leslie Caron Quotes
You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.
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The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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I just write mechanical things.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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I wish I could do 50 projects a year.
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I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
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I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids – he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.
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I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.
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Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
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I made a living being a background singer for years.
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
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My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
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Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
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I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
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I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
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One of the biggest gifts you can give a child is confidence, because confidence will take you miles - more than talent, more than anything else. So yes, I want my children to have confidence and to be kind.
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Hope without direction can all too easily turn into despair.
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The most evil creatures don’t desire the destruction of everything-they only desire to exploit it for themselves.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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I'm horrible at quoting movies! Even my very favorites are not easily recalled or programmed to memory. When people start movie quoting around me, I'm that person who just smiles and then looks up the reference later.
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You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.
