Cilla Black Quotes
It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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When you play against people that's better than you, you get better.
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I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally different, to believe that all people can be equal - that is not a new idea.
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I don't know - I don't listen to the radio that much. I really am an old-soul kind of girl.
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It was the early Seventies, and I discovered makeup by going through my mother's fashion magazines. I fell in love with the photos, the models, the fashion.
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I'm not great on television. That's one reason I don't do it very often.
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It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.
