Angela Lansbury Quotes
I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
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I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.
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Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!
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I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.
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My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'
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I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.
