Geena Davis Quotes
If I go to hotels, they always say, 'Welcome back', even when I've never been there before.
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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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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 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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I'm such a fan girl when it comes to movies, TV and sci-fi, sometimes I can't believe I actually get to be in them.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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I didn't want to be a big star. I wanted to be a really good actor.
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Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.
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'West Wing' was huge. Like 'Hamilton,' it pulls back the curtain on how decision-making happens at the highest level, or at least how you hope it would be. The amount of information Aaron Sorkin packs into a scene gave me this courage to trust the audience to keep up.
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If I go to hotels, they always say, 'Welcome back', even when I've never been there before.
