Angela Lansbury Quotes
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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I've never been a calm, midrange type person.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.
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There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be as concise as possible, all to try and reach everyone, but especially the simple people, those who needed to be reached more than anyone else.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.
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The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.
