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Lesley-Anne Down Quotes

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.

Lesley-Anne Down

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: british
Birth: March 17, 1954

Topics

World Think Acting Say Want Breath

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

John Grierson

Good Happiness School Philosophy

I did not actually run down a deer for 'Tammy,' I promise.

Melissa McCarthy

Down Run Deer Promise Did Actually

Very, very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons. It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone.

John Hurt

Work Great Feel Someone You Two

I like working with the public, I like working with food, and I like making cash.

Amy Sedaris

Food Cash Working Like Making

Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

Amy Chua

Innovation Tolerance Enlightenment

If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Time Worth Know Clock Remembering

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

Sholom Aleichem

Simple Here Lies Who Prose Plain

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Jean Cocteau

Tragedy Worst Misunderstood Poet

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

Don Bluth

Business Whatever Sells

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't that different from everybody else's.

Brian Eno

Trust Thought Done Always Taste

It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.

Boris Johnson

Pay Through Low Paid Chief Benefits

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.

Annette Bening

Art Husband Feet Awards He Them