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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do…
— James Dean
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I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page.…
— Zooey Deschanel
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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing…
— Charles Dickens
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I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where…
— Celine Dion
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I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.
— Lexa Doig
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I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.
— Robert Downey, Jr.
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I asked Fred Astaire once when he was about my age if he still danced, and he said 'Yes, but it hurts now.' That's exactly…
— Dick Van Dyke
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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted…
— Umberto Eco
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I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the…
— Clint Eastwood
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Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain…
— Christopher Eccleston
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Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
— Meister Eckhart
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I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
— Dave Eggers
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there…
— Havelock Ellis
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If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might…
— Brian Eno
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
— W.C. Fields
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But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there…
— Harvey Fierstein
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I'm not exactly an angry young person.
— Renee Fleming
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I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most…
— Gerald R. Ford
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The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted…
— Mark Haddon
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'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who…
— Larry Hagman
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Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom…
— Eddie Van Halen
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I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a…
— Mohsin Hamid
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