Joanne Woodward Quotes
I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
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I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.
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I can't remember the first time, but I've worked with supermodels almost from day one.
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I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.
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Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.
