Elaine Paige Quotes
If you’re a serious actor, you wouldn’t put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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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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We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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I love to fly so much.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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'Indiana Jones' was me growing up. I could quote lines from 'Tango and Cash' as much as I could quote lines from 'The Searchers'.
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I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.
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If you’re a serious actor, you wouldn’t put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.
