Alice B. Toklas Quotes
This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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I really hate to write.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.
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The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.
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I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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I care about being creative and expressing myself.
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
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We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.
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I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
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We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.
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I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.
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I'd had three husbands by 23. The second was a songwriter who couldn't handle the fact the little lady was doing better than him.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
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In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.
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Tar water is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.
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I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.
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One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
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Shyly Nancy and Plum sat down at the table while Mrs. Campbell heaped pink-flowered plates with baked beans, sausage cakes and salad, passed a steaming plate of brown bread, cut them off generous pieces of the pat of new butter and handed them big mugs of ice-cold milk.
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Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.
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This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.
