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"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
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"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."
Hair
"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
War
"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
Cinema
"I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress."
Dress
"The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!"
Family
"My mother was a politician in my formative years."
Family
"The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous."
Ethics
"Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special."
Love
"If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us."
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"Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid."
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"An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie."
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"A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience."
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"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."
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"I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosure. But a film that shows the world is a Bates Motel, well, that's... the stuff of Buchloe, dystopia, depression. We'll dip our toes in a predatory, amoral, godless unive3rse, but only our toes."
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"Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films."
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"Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema."
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"It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke."
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"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."
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"The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits."
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"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."
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