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Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen! -- Harper Lee
I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times. -- Richard Farnsworth
I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. -- Steven Spielberg
Blast Cecil!â? said Eldric. "You have my permission," said. -- Franny Billingsley
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies. -- Joel Hodgson
The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman. -- Pat Metheny
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes. -- Richard Flanagan
I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille. -- Gloria Swanson
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged. -- Steve Lacy
I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented. -- Stephen Dorff
How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life! -- Oscar Wilde
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Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once." -- Samuel Smiles
How many more are there like you? (Maggie) Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a two-man opera. (Wren) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting. -- Hamish Bowles
Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects... the list is endless. -- Dries van Noten
And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window. -- Archie Shepp
The boy shall have a proper beating,' said Cecil. 'But I beat him already,' I said, 'and don't tell me I didn't do it properly. I'm touchy about these things. -- Franny Billingsley
When I showed up at UH, my hair was past my waist. I had a goatee. I wasn't a theater geek; I wasn't an actor. But Cecil Pickett molded me and taught me. -- Brett Cullen
I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude. -- Franny Billingsley
I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing. -- Luc Ferrari
Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Cecil Castellucci is writing Shade, who is the perfect writer for it. I love her young adult stuff, and it's pretty hardcore and visceral, so I knew she was going to bring that to the book. -- Gerard Way
When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played. -- Lou Reed
Poor Cecil. It's hard to be a devil of a fellow in these modern times. No stagecoaches to hold up. No princesses to rescue. Just Petey Todd to escort, while the easy, expert fellow walks the pretty girl home. -- Franny Billingsley
So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him. -- Archie Shepp
He scooped up my arm, swung me round. "Let go, Cecil," said. "I've a strange dislike of being forced.â? "But Briony,â? he said, "I'm so full of good spirits. I could walk to London, I think!â? Why didn't he? -- Franny Billingsley
At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country. -- Mario Testino
We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes. A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book. -- Alan Jay Lerner
My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things. -- Kary Mullis
Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions. -- Michelle Malkin

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