Lilli Palmer Quotes
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
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As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
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My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
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When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
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Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
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I don't like it when people don't act on their words.
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As a woman, it's nice to hear people at the stage door say, 'I didn't even know! She's a woman, and that's the most amazing thing'.
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As elsewhere in his writing, Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, Romeo and Juliet, the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.
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I read about two young ladies that went to Parsons, and when they graduated Elizabeth Taylor opened a store for them in Paris and I thought okay-that's all I have to do!
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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
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Mama showed me that I didn't have to change just because someone else saw things differently. She showed me that having differences is normal and that I didn't have to be afraid of the differences in all of us.
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Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.
