Angela Lansbury Quotes

I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.

Angela Lansbury

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• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

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• I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

  

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• I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.

  

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• We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.

  

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• I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

  

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• I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

  

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• All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

  

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• The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

  

  Adam McKay
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• In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

  

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• It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

  

  Adam Clarke
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• We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.

  

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• You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

  

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• The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.

  

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• I don't know many better training grounds than being mayor of San Francisco - those were pretty intense years in terms of reporting and scrutiny.

  

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• One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

  

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• As great, everlasting, Adamantine laws Dictate, we must all Complete the cycles Of our existence.

  

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• 'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'

  

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• It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference - inference either intuitive or deliberate.

  

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• I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.

  

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• Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

  

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• Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my profession, I told him that I was a writer. He sipped his drink. "Half-hour or hour?" he inquired. There was a long silence. "Lifelong," I replied.

  

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• I just want to thank everyone for their support. Sometimes friends need the help of their friends to get by.

  

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• That's some fucking doorman you've got out there.

  

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• I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.

  

  Angela Lansbury