Hayley Mills Quotes

#1. My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

Rick Springfield

#2. I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.

Laura Haddock

#3. The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

Maureen O'Hara

#4. Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

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#5. I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

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#6. Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

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#7. My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

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#8. It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

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#9. In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

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#10. I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

Graeme Murphy

#11. If you love your work, your working days will be your restful days!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

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#13. I live in jeans and own a lot of them. I'm much more comfortable in trousers and T-shirts, and I don't often wear dresses.

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#14. Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.

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#15. I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

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#16. I cry in movies a lot, and over books.

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#17. I want to make big movies that appeal to a lot of people. That's satisfying to me.

Steve Antin

#18. My father was an inspiration to me; I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.

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#19. I have a horror of being in confined spaces.

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#20. Perhaps Mr. Grey insists on all his employees being blonde. I'm wondering idly if that's legal.

E.L. James

#21. If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.

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#22. Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.

Caitlin Thomas

#23. When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

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#24. I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

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#25. I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

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#26. The ethical expression for what Abraham did is that he meant to murder Isaac; the religious expression is that he meant to sacrifice Isaac - but precisely in this contradiction is the anxiety that can make a person sleepless, and yet without this anxiety Abraham is not who he is.

Soren Kierkegaard

#27. The act of eating was a comfort to his shrunken belly, although a false one - the

Sara Pennypacker

#28. My best feature is my hair.

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#29. No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

Thomas Aquinas

#30. Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.

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#31. Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

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#32. Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

Lisa Nicole Carson

#33. There are some fantastic, brilliant alternative doctors out there.

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#34. Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

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#35. There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.

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