Ida Lupino Quotes
I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.
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I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.
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The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.
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Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emulate the Four Seasons. So they can go up, but they have to emulate the people they're trying to compete against. They can't disrupt them, because there isn't anything about their model that is extendable upmarket.
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I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.
