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Maggie Smith Quotes

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: british
Birth: December 28, 1934

Topics

Theatre Performance Gone Ghost Like

When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it got passed, and he was the conservative and the southerner. So sometimes in politics, to get something done, it takes a special kind of knowledge and a special kind of person, but it doesn't always follow the party lines.

Knowledge Politics Party Person Done

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.

Food Watching Replace Making Allow

If only all straight weddings could be somehow gay-ified.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Only Straight Weddings Could Somehow

I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor.

Said Want Actor Director Always

When you hire Sam Jackson, he'll figure out the character, and he'll figure out the character's look, and he'll provide it to you. With Sam Jackson, you basically yell 'action', you go get a sandwich, and you come back and yell 'cut.'

Character Action You Look Back Go

I always think about the small details because I need to improve more and more.

Small Think Details More Need About

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

Work Together Loved Genius Play Go

As I get older, it's getting more frustrating because I'm starting to think about what I'm going to do after cycling, and I may be pushed to study alongside riding in order to prepare for retirement - all those things the professional blokes don't really have to think about.

Lizzie Armitstead

Think Retirement Professional Riding

Touring has been a major part of my career. I've done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night sell-out stint at the Indoor Arena in Birmingham, playing to a total audience of 65,000.

Career Done Audience Playing Been

In Canada, I climbed some mountains with the Alpine Club of Canada, which taught me a lot about stamina.

Mountains Me Canada Club Stamina

At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don't do your job, you're going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.

Day Job End Of The Day End You Down

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

I Am Looking Intelligent Still Even

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