Bessie Smith Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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I just write and do what I think is funny. Sometimes, you do have it in your head about certain bits. There are certain jokes where I know if I did them in certain situations, it would irk people. There are times where I look at the news and see a story going on, and I'm like, 'Wow, if I tweeted this, I would get press if I wanted to.'
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I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy.
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It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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I feed off the fashion world like a parasite.
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For a lot of people, life's been pretty good. There hasn't been true terror right in your face.
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cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.
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I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.
