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'm always the underdog, and I go in there and win the fights.
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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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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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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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Guys are very simple.
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As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
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If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.
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While our Party has bestowed upon him the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us.
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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.
