Marie Helvin Quotes
I don't wear mini-skirts or shorts because I have thread veins on my legs and cellulite, and I won't wear tights.
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Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: 'That's not cool, that's really mean.'
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I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
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I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.
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I have a toy poodle, Shadow. She's a little whippersnapper! And I love little monkeys.
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Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.
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When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
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'Children,' I said to her. 'For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don’t find?'
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The unit of significance in the poem is not the word but the phrase or sentence...a poet should consider the effect of the whole poem, not its local felicities.
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You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius....
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For me, church was about not only religion but about community. A woman in my grandmother's church helped pay for my SAT classes when I was in high school and drove me there every week.
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It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind. Maybe it crossed my mind that it would be cool to have a hit record and a career, but that was so out of reach that I don't think I thought about it that much.
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If you're a true warrior, competition doesn't scare you. It makes you better.
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Had she been male, she would have been granted a modicum of leeway, but as a woman she was damned as a whore.
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Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
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I don't wear mini-skirts or shorts because I have thread veins on my legs and cellulite, and I won't wear tights.
