Petula Clark Quotes
I was with Karen Carpenter in Vegas. We were invited to Elvis's dressing room and I had to drag her away. She was such a sweet girl but I could see what was going on. I met him a few times after that, and he flirted very heavily with me. I was supposed to do a movie with him and that was stopped right away by my husband!
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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Birth was the death of him.
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The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.
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When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.'
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It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.
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If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
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Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
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I want to work with Darren Aronofsky, Damien Chazelle, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and, of course, Majid Majidi.
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I was with Karen Carpenter in Vegas. We were invited to Elvis's dressing room and I had to drag her away. She was such a sweet girl but I could see what was going on. I met him a few times after that, and he flirted very heavily with me. I was supposed to do a movie with him and that was stopped right away by my husband!
