Jean Simmons Quotes
Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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When the going gets tough, the tough get an uzi.
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The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
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I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.
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Sports exact too harsh a toll on our beautiful women. Like engendered species, they should be protected, and instead, we exploit them and demand they fly too close to the sun for our amusement. We send them into the arena for an exhausting three-setter, an 18-hole playoff, a 200th lap. The burnout factor is insurmountable.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.
