Joan Crawford Quotes
If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
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Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.
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In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
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When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.
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We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
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I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
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If you've earned a position, be proud of it. Don't hide it. I want to be recognized. When I hear people say, 'There's Joan Crawford!' I turn around and say, 'Hi! How are you!'
