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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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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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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My my, hey heyRock and roll is here to stay.It's better to burn outThan to fade away.My my, hey hey.
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I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren't actors who have a rough time, too, and I don't know if the ratio is any different.
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It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.
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If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.
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You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
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Directing takes a lot of time.
