Liza Minnelli Quotes

I thought that making movies was drab. I'd lived through that. And I didn't want to use my parents, ever... They didn't want to push me into this business.

Liza Minnelli

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Teenage years are all about crushes: crushes so deep you wanted to inhabit the other person, be inside their skin, see the world through their eyes.

Jenny Han

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The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self.

Jenna Wortham

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When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.

Andrew Cohen

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While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

Max Muller

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I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

Anna Chancellor

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No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.

Lorene Scafaria

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As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. Success isn't born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell; it's developed through relentless trial and error.

Jay Samit

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I love to read profiles about people, but I'm interested in their processes. I only ever do them for newspapers that I love.

Joseph Fiennes

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Personally, I feel that a company which looks at problems of other companies and learns from their mistakes is a successful one.

Dilip Shanghvi

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I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win medals. My mum had given me a bag of medals which she had won when she was young, so the idea of winning medals was very exciting.

Alistair Brownlee

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I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.

Thurston Moore

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I will always be fighting in one form or another until the day I die.

Tim Kennedy

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