Geena Davis Quotes
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
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When I was growing up, my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Uganda or Rwanda.
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I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.
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I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.
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When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
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A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
