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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I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas?
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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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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I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.
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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.
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I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.
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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!
