Geena Davis Quotes
If I go to hotels, they always say, 'Welcome back', even when I've never been there before.
Quotes to Explore
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Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.
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I've always had great faith in people.
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There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.
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We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.
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I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the “dirty work” of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices.
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There are roughly 22,000 Palestinians working side by side with what you call settlers in factories and malls in the West Bank. If you work together, you start understanding each other.
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I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever.
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If I go to hotels, they always say, 'Welcome back', even when I've never been there before.
