Leslie Charteris Quotes
If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.
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They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.
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Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.
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I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.
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Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.
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Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.
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Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
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A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.
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If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
