Antonia Fraser Quotes
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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Eating vegetarian doesn't mean you have to eat boring, humdrum dishes.
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I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.
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I'm proud of my Korean heritage, but I want people to know I'm American. It's not important to be the Korean Taylor Swift.
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I made hats until I went into the Army. I was drafted during the Korean War.
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Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.
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I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
