Colleen McCullough Quotes
And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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Let the tech firms and consulting firms build your skills, but be sure to ask yourself, 'Am I maximizing my impact?' 'Am I living up to my values?'
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
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I'm covered up, but I'm still getting these comments that say I shouldn't be. But the girls who wear the bikinis, they're being told they're too revealing! Enough. It's their body, their choice.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I was just amazed by it. I just said, 'Hey Mom, can I do this too?' And so she signed me up for little theater classes, and I remember my first audition for a play when I was seven years old was for 'The Thankful Elf.'
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If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
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John, forgive me... for what I can't help doing.
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And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them; as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
