Kate Winslet (1975) English actress and singer
Marie Clare, Kate Winslet interview by Harvey Marcus on Thursday 30 April 2009 http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/celebrity/interviews/322173/kate-winslet-interview.html
[Eye for Film, Giving British films some Punch, http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature.php?id=545, Amber, Wilkinson, 18 July 2008, 23 February 2012, www.eyeforfilm.co.uk]
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Kate Winslet (1975) English actress and singer
Marie Clare, Kate Winslet interview by Harvey Marcus on Thursday 30 April 2009 http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/celebrity/interviews/322173/kate-winslet-interview.html
“My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.”
Anne Hathaway (1982) American actress
As quoted in "Anne Hathaway: 'I'd Rather Be Strong Than Skinny'" in in People magazine (8 March 2007) http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20014366,00.html
Lois Duncan (1934–2016) American young-adult and children's writer
On violence in the arts, 1998 interview, reprinted in The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/08/25/lois-duncan-author-of-teenage-fiction--obituary/ (2016) <br class="br">1990–2002
Leung Chun-ying (1954) Hong Kong politician
2014 <br class="br">Source: Hong Kong Leader Reaffirms Unbending Stance on Elections, The New York Times, Keith Bradsher and Chris Buckley, 20 October 2014, October 2014 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/world/asia/leung-chun-ying-hong-kong-china-protests.html, <br class="br">Source: Hong Kong 'lucky' China has not stopped protests, says CY Leung, Financial Times, Josh Noble and Julie Zhu, 20 October 2014, October 2014 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3f6f1c74-584b-11e4-a31b-00144feab7de.html, <br class="br">Source: ‘Be more like sheep’: Seven dumb things said by Hong Kong’s leader CY Leung, 18 February 2015, The Daily Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/11420654/Be-more-like-sheep-Seven-dumb-things-said-by-Hong-Kongs-leader-CY-Leung.html,
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker
As quoted in Hitchcock (revised edition 1984) by François Truffaut with the collaboration of Helen G. Scott, p. 102.
“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000) Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and freq…
As quoted in The Stars (1962) by Richard Schickel
Mickey Spillane (1918–2006) American writer
As quoted in The Making of a Bestseller: From Author to Reader (1999) by Arthur T. Vanderbilt, p. 135
“That we may know
Whether the devil doth his looks belie,
And if he is as ugly as we paint him.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
LII, 1
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
