Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Quotes
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.
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The debate on climate change has been tainted by its excessive concern with individual and national interests, short-termism, and lack of solidarity in face of global threats.
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If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.
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I happen to be very good with younger actors because I have extremely vivid memories of that time of my life, and kids are just funny.
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They may not know how good they are yet.
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A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
