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"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
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"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
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"The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses."
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"Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs."
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"I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this."
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"National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense."
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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 feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema."
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"An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie."
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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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"I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language."
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"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
"We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged."
People
"My mother was a politician in my formative years."
Family
"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."
Change
"I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life."
Life
"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."
Fiction
"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."
Woman
"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild."
Family
"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
Cinema
"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."
Hair
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