Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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We shred every day.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.
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If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.
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Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.
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I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.
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I'm a kid who grew up working hard.
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My theory is that all women have hydrofluoric acid bottled up inside.
