Lydia Leonard Quotes
What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
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It's time to renew our commitment to the world around us.
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I am just an actor - all I do is I memorise someone else's words and tart around.
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That unpredictable game here in England, that makes it so fascinating for the fans, because you never know what will happen.
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The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
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What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.
