Margaret Keane Quotes
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.
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I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
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As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.
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A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.
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What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It's a joke. But, let's face it, we live in a fantasy world.
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I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a cafe, and I did bike delivery, and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.
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If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.
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One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.
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I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.
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Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.
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I'd rather be home alone, painting.
