Leslie Caron Quotes
It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.Leslie Caron
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick -
If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
Laura Dern -
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell -
All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
Pat Nixon -
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
Hannah Kent -
Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
Waris Dirie
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
Hans Haacke -
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
Samuel L. Jackson -
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I don't like controversy.
Sammy Sosa -
Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
Patricia Polacco -
I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.
Olivia Newton-John
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
Mackenzie Davis -
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang -
No one person is an island.
Yehuda Berg -
Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
Cameron Diaz -
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
Imogen Cunningham -
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
Ted Danson
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
Edith Piaf -
Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.
James Altucher -
Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
Barton Gellman -
In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.
Vernon Howard -
It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.
Leslie Caron