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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I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.
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We opened a shop in Rotherham which does free demonstrations every day, six days a week and it's been very popular.
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A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.
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I've gotten an opportunity to work with a lot of the people I've looked up to over the years, and I feel pretty grateful for it.
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From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.
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It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.
