Hayley Mills Quotes

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

  Hayley Mills

  Learning, Golf, Games

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

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  Healing, Hands, Amount

  "'I felt I was dying': Hayley Mills on why she quit chemotherapy as she battled cancer" by Nicola Methven, www.mirror.co.uk. December 26, 2012.

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

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  Children, Growing Up, Acting

  "What I see in the mirror: Hayley Mills" by Hayley Mills, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.

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• 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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  Mirrors, Light, Perspective

  "What I see in the mirror" by Hayley Mills, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.

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

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  Cancer, Way, Rest Of Your Life

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

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  Thinking, Levels, Exam

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• 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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  Father, Inspiration, People

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

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  Happened, Felt

  "'I felt I was dying': Hayley Mills on why she quit chemotherapy as she battled cancer". Interview with Nicola Methven, www.mirror.co.uk. December 26, 2012.

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

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  Reading, Garden, Pursuit

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• My best feature is my hair.

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  Hair, Features

  "What I see in the mirror" by Hayley Mills, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.

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• 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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  Character, Safety, Typical

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• 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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  Jeans, Dresses, T Shirt

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

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  Jobs, People, Admire

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• The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.

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  Running, Learning, Errors

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• I have a horror of being in confined spaces. Potholing is my idea of hell.

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  Space, Horror, Confined

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. March 06, 2010.

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

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  New York, Energy, Helping

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

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  Flower, Rose, Favourite

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

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  Cancer, Way, Make Sense

  "'I felt I was dying': Hayley Mills on why she quit chemotherapy as she battled cancer". Interview with Nicola Methven, www.mirror.co.uk. December 26, 2012.

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• I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

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  Lazy, Acting, Creatures

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• 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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  Hate, Sunday, Night

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• I cry in movies a lot, and over books.

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  Book, Cry

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2010.

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• 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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  Home, Son, Balance

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• 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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  Doors, Magic, Trying

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