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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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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Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?
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I am very conscious that, having worked part time, having had a rather disrupted career, my research record is a good deal patchier than any man's of a comparable age.
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The light dims a little bit as you get older and new generations come along. But it's around the holidays when I am remembered the most. It is very special, and I get a kick out of it now as much as I did when I first started.
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I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.
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I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.
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If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.
