Alistair Cooke Quotes
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
Alistair Cooke
Quotes to Explore
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Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
Tab Hunter
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Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
Carlos Ponce
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
Maeve Binchy
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
Irrfan Khan
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Walter Winchell
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Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.
Leeza Gibbons
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion." And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.
Boy George
Culture Club
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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
Wole Soyinka
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It looks now as if everything has been profitable to me. And if the payment has sometimes been excessive, it was afer all the payment, for life, and there cannot be and is no excessive payment for life.
Nina Berberova
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Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
Alistair Cooke
