Claudette Colbert Quotes
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When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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The most important thing is to not waste your money.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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Belief is thought at rest.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.
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Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
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Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.
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If you're born once, you die twice; but if you're born twice, you die once.
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If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.
