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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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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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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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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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.
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People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.
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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.
