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"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
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"Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."

"We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that."

"I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood."

"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."

"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."

"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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"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."

"The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous."

"If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us."

"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."

"I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life."

"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."

"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."
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