Vera Brittain Quotes
I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.
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We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.
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One day I said to my dad, 'Are you disappointed that I'm working a minimum-wage job and I didn't go to college?' I'll never forget his response. He said, 'It's not about how much money you make or what your job is, but it's more about your character. For that, I'm proud of you.'
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Sometimes, as actors, we feel like we want to hold on and control where a character goes.
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I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.
