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 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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They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.
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If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with.
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Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
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Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from.
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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.
