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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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
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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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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 really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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Everybody gathered at my Aunt Hannah's house, and we sat around and talked, ate, drank and told lies. That's what people do, and I just sat there and listened.
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I look at myself as a game-changer, and I try to make that a facet of my game.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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I feel like I could never walk around a film half-naked. I definitely wouldn't want to see that.
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
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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.
