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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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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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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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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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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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
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It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.
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If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.
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There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
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One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and that's because I am a very free person.
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At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
