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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I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.
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I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.
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The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.
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This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.
