Betty Comden Quotes
At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
Quotes to Explore
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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I think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you were seen out somewhere has anything to do with a director's opinion of you, and whether they could use you or not.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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I just think we're on this rock orbiting a sun that's going to go out, and I don't know that human society is necessarily a wonderful thing for the planet. I think people can be kind to one another and share things, but I don't know that this particular iteration of civilization is to be preferred to any other.
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At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
