Madeline Kahn Quotes
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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You can't bank on the outcome.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.
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This is my carefree, this is my freedom–this is MY HAPPY.
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Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
