M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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A will finds a way.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
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I have no real tattoos. I wear my bruises and tons of scars as my tattoos.
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I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'
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I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.
