Brittany Murphy Quotes

I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.

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• Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Performance

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • High
  • Mountain
  • Blood

• I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • War
  • Want

• The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Taken

• I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • People
  • Real
  • Heart

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Believe
  • Influence
  • Legends

• The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • You
  • Law
  • Capitalism

• The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Interesting
  • First
  • Disney

• I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Start

• The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Time
  • Science
  • Trust

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Better
  • Look

• For economist the real world is often a special case.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • World
  • Real
  • Special

• When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Man
  • You
  • Battle

• I just want to be at peace with myself, personally and professionally. I want to lead my life the way I want to without having to worry about what the other person may be thinking. Professionally again, I would like to be able to just do films that I want to without having to explain my reasons to my friends, family and fans.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Family

• New York's definitely got my heart.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Heart
  • New
  • Got

• I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Thought
  • Down
  • Street

• When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers it's coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I've nothing to write.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • People
  • Soul

• There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Country
  • History
  • Past

• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

  

  Blaine Pardoe
  • World
  • Change
  • Create

• I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.

  

  Brittany Murphy
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