John Barrymore Quotes
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
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I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.
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It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
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I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.
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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
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Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
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Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.
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We had all these smiley family pictures all over the walls of my house, but I always found those pictures to be odd because we weren't smiling all the time. I don't want to paint the picture of a total dysfunctional house, but there were a lot of arguments in that house. A lot of pain.
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I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.
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The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.
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Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
