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If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#another #broad #certain #certain things #company

It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#exposed #film-making #grown #having #helps

Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#anything #audience #away #because #becomes

When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#audience #kept #life #lives #looked

We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breathe, and it wasn't good enough. My visor got fogged. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#cool #enough #flowing #found #gemini

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#available #does #dying #even #former

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#become #believing #churches #once #organizations

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fiction #journalism #life #mainly #newspapers

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#miserable #only #partners #their #tis

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#company #i #me #tell #thee