Soap Quotes - Page 7

• To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Writing, Mean

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• Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another, "Molly, my dear, I would have bought that new brand of toilet soap if only they hadn't set the body copy in ten point Garamond." Don't you believe it. What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

  David Ogilvy

  Believe, Once Upon A Time, Riding

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• So many bands are like, 'I'm real because I'm dirty.' If you have money for guitars, you can afford soap.

  Pelle Almqvist

  Real, Dirty, Guitar

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At the end of the day, every media entity is in the business of selling soap. They're not afraid of being popular.

  Lino Rulli

  Media, The End Of The Day, Selling

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby.

  Marlon Brando

  Kids, Beer, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.

  Daphne Guinness

  Memories, Hands, Trying

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• I'm clean and dope like heroin soap

  Andy Milonakis

  Dope, Heroin, Clean

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• Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.

  Boy George

  Stars, Doors, Names

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as this new thing. It reminds me of how people used to tell me about my great-grandmother and how they used to gather around a radio listening to soap operas.

  Kalup Linzy

  Grandmother, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ...consumers do not buy one brand of soap, or coffee, or detergent. They have a repertory of four or five brands, and move from one to another. They almost never buy a brand which has not been admitted to their repertory during its first year on the market.

  David Ogilvy

  Coffee, Moving, Years

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• When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was my first exposure to production. But I quickly became disillusioned by acting and seeing that in the movies I loved and the TV I loved, no one looked like me. There weren't going to be any leading roles that would be interested in casting someone with my face.

  Meera Menon

  Teenager, Acting, Actors

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap operas, in season and out of season, that NFL programming gives television.

  Jerry Jones

  Nfl, Giving, Opera

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• All I knew about Ireland before I went there was what I learned from watching soap commercials all my life. I was totally misinformed. I thought it was an Irish tradition where you don't even take a shower with your soap - you take your soap for a walk, you compliment the soap for a little while and then, suddenly, you just start hacking it up with a hunting knife.

  Arj Barker

  Hunting, Knives, Littles

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• The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Opera, Stuff, Misery

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• If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits.

  Michael Portillo

  Death, Finals, Credit

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• I'm a bit of a potty mouth. My dad used to wash out my mouth with soap, but that was just to get rid of any traces of his DNA.

  Doug Stanhope

  Dad, Dna, Mouths

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• People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner. All amazing people.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  People, Looks, Aspect

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• For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

  Ronald Biggs

  Running, Opera, Soap Operas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

  Peter Robinson

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• In every soap, at the end of the season, relationships end and people leave the show. You look at characters and evaluate whether they're great characters or not, and whether they have a future in the show. And we did all of that.

  Robert Greenblatt

  Character, People, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked at Avenue M Studios shooting a soap opera and battling being a 17 to 18-year-old playing twins being afraid that I was going to get fired, because who wouldn't fire me? I had no idea what I was doing.

  Anne Heche

  Dog, Fire, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the recent trials of O.J. Simpson, Erik and Lyle Menendez, and various defendants in preschool molestation cases have been lengthy, lawyer-dominated soap operas in which the search for truth has been subordinated to the manipulation of procedures.

  James Q. Wilson

  Thinking, Guilt, Criminals

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• Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

  Aubrey Beardsley

  Beautiful, Modern Life, Makers

  David Colvin, Aubrey Beardsley (1998). “Aubrey Beardsley: a slave to beauty”, Welcome Rain Publishers

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• Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

  Kassie DePaiva

  Believe, Careers, Opera

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• New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  New York, Towers, Whiskey

  The New York Times, November 27, 1955.

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