Joan Blondell Quotes
I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.
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I'm not making films just to be bold.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.
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There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
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You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them.
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Miso makes a soup loaded with flavour that saves you the hassle of making stock.
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The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.
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I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.
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During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.
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For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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As a cornerback, you only get probably about 5 chances to really impact the game.
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I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons, if they aren't capable of taking that decision themselves and giving that order, then I hope that they won't prosecute people who want to save their lives and the lives of others.
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If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.
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Real change doesn't come without crisis. Childbirth doesn't come without crisis. I think that's happening with humanity now. Our growth has generated multiple crises...and these are the contractions that are propelling us into a new world, whether we like it or not, but I think we're going to like it.
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I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.
