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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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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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'
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Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.
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I enjoy being in New York. I have so many fans here that sing all my songs from start to finish.
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For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.
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I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don't write; my mouth waters when I think about writing, and I have an extreme physical reaction to the idea of doing it.
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But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
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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.
