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It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise. ↗

— William Banting

#appetite #compelled #consequently #exercise #forsake

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#career #dear #doors #feature #friends

Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#creative #friends #good #made #necessarily

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. ↗

— Dave Barry

#after #come #offending #people #problem

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?' ↗

— Javier Bardem

#after #back #come #doing #go

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#counts #day #director #end #end of the day

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. ↗

— Robert Southey

#cannot #friend #heal #like #limb

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#away #body #gets #life #looking

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#considered #friends #me #mother #only

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#animal rights #defend #just #left #matter