Cynthia Payne Quotes
I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.
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Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
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When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
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I hate musicals. There, I said it.
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Making people's lives better is not a partisan issue.
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The danger hidden within Weber's charismatic celebrity is … having a predisposition to imitate any one individual must always have its negative impact especially when the role model does not feel a duty … to instantiate suitable values to adopt.
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He who hath bent him o'er the deadEre the first day of death is fled,-The first dark day of nothingness,The last of danger and distress,Before decay's effacing fingersHave swept the lines where beauty lingers.
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I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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I think pure country music includes rock and roll .. I've never been able to get into the further label of country-rock .. how can you define something like that ? - I just say this: It's music. Either it's good or it's bad; either you like it or you don't.
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I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'
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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
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I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.
