Jeff Bridges Quotes
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.
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You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, 'It could have been much better.'
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I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.
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Directing takes a lot of time.
