Ida Lupino Quotes
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
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We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.
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The single biggest threat that we face is a nuclear weapon or some weapon of mass destruction. What that means is that we have to be extraordinarily aggressive and vigilant in controlling nuclear proliferation.
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Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.
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Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.
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Reason is the servant of instinct.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
