"Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it."

-- Lukas Foss

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“I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.”
“Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!”

Source : Alfred Austin, “A Woman’s Apology”
“I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.”
“I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.”
“I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.”
“Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?”
“I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.”

Source : "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry". Book by Mildred D. Taylor, 1976.
“I love the plus (fashion) industry! It embraces a lot of women who would otherwise disappear into the background. I truly love what I do!”

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