Joan Bennett Quotes
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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The man-child in American comedies is always glorified; they never really show the darker side.
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This is my job. I just wake up, and I train.
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Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
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I sleep for about four hours a night, or day really. I go to bed at, like, 9 A.M., sleep for four hours, then get up and start the day again. I don't mind if that's not healthy.
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
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Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering.
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Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?
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Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.
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Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
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All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.
