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You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#belongs #comes #country #everyone #get

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#after #america #because #could #deeper

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#betray #consciously #cruel #each #i

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#i #laugh #relatives #talked #used

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#born #had #india #insist #lived

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#bad #because #bottom #down #end

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. ↗

— Maria Callas

#becomes #before #begins #come #curtain

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#because #doing #down #figure #lazy

We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting. ↗

— David Zucker

#because #difficult #director #exciting #i

It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#bought #dollars #easy #fighter #having