Aubrey Beardsley Quotes
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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My parents could not be more Italian.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.
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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
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When you're young and have the opportunity, it's crucial to learn as much as possible about your profession from every possible angle.
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If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
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As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
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There are no tough guys in wrestling.
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Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.
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The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
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The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?
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Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
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Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.
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The only place in London where one can forget that it is Sunday.
