Jean Seberg Quotes
I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.
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Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.
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To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
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To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.
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What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.
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I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.
