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Raquel Welch Quotes

The whole sex-symbol thing is part of what I do as an actress. It's a kind of character I play. It's part of me, but not the whole me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: September 5, 1940

Topics

Character Me Play Kind Whole Part

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

You Know Strengths Politicians

I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character.

Character Overwhelmed Air Up Offer

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

Life Work Change Journey People New

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Life Failure Integrity Compromise

You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way - challenges, roadblocks - don't let it faze you, and you can overcome anything.

Positive Attitude Challenges You Way

I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.

Christopher Buckley

Go Writer Belly Cerebral Unabashedly

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

Me Unique Find Washington Watergate

I've often thought books give you - put you in a world that you never thought you could go. And I often would say, I don't need to go to California. Give me a book that talks about California. And I can put it in my head and imagine what it looked like.

Anthony Ray Hinton

Me World Book Thought You I Can

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

History Beginning End Connections

We joined a Conservative synagogue. I began learning through engagement, rote and reading. Suddenly, I belonged... well, to the extent that a novelist can ever feel she is part of a group; we may be part of a minyan, but we're not fully merged into the community.

Learning Community Reading Feel She

There are lots of people in the world who have money. Lots of people in Morecambe have money, let alone the world. And Morecambe is quite a small place.

Alone Money People World Small Who

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,' so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Life Cake My Life Back House Way

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