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Jessie Matthews Quotes

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.

Jessie Matthews

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: british
Birth: March 11, 1907 - August 19, 1981

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Perfection Mind You Strive Always

I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.

Hope Light Best Darkness Think Some

I think I was a bit naive when I was younger. I don't know what it was: I sort of felt tunnel vision - I didn't really have peripheral vision or see the world and what was happening. I'm much more worldly, and I believe that I'm much more grounded in my body than I probably was when I was younger.

Vision World Believe Think Body See

When I start running my mouth, I start running facts. I start giving guys numbers. I start giving guys ideas of where I come from and where I work.

Work Ideas Start Facts Giving Mouth

A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.

Confidence Police Government People

I think people are slowly realizing that don't have to be looking in a mirror to enjoy something. And they're realizing that watching a show with drag queens in it doesn't make you gay any more then listening to rap makes you black.

Mirror People Listening Looking You

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Freedom Suffering Evil Face You

I don't like this romanticization of Indian people in which Indian people are looked at as spiritual saviors, as people who have always taken care of the land. We're human beings. But I think different cultures have developed different aspects of humanness.

Spiritual People Think Care Land

I can't very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

Life My Life You Say Living Way

Valentine's Day is definitely one of those days where it's either awesome or it's a downer.

Judah Friedlander

Valentine's Day Day Awesome Days

Grilling grapes may sound crazy, but the smoky, blistered char they get from a few minutes on the fire gives them a deep, winelike character.

Character Fire Crazy Deep Sound May

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Douglas MacArthur

History Men Wolves Loved Hard Like

I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my friend.

Love Friend Child Library Smell

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