Veronica Franco Quotes
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.
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It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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I want to impact some lives down the road, one by one, and I want people to look at my story and my life as an inspiration.
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What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.
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The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system.
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You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.
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I didn't want to do 'The Fluffy Puppy Learns to Hold Hands!' or 'Kitty Gets a Box to Play In!' There's a place for that for the little ones - some kids need that stuff. But I'm too dark and sarcastic.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
