Ken Adam Quotes
Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Running back was always my favorite position.
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I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
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We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'
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There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
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For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
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I actually think every person can make a difference. Every single human being has within the impulse to express more of who they truly are.
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.
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Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.
