Geena Davis Quotes
Identifying with a character is one of the best parts of seeing a movie, but as women, we've had to train ourselves to experience the male journey.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
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The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
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According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.
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I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.
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Character is inured habit.
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'Cod' was a great story. It let me talk about the environment without putting people to sleep.
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Identifying with a character is one of the best parts of seeing a movie, but as women, we've had to train ourselves to experience the male journey.
