Geena Davis Quotes
I am completely obsessed with numbers and data. I have become a scientist in later life.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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'Power breaking,' also called Hanmadang - which means something like celebration or festival in Korean - involves breaking large amounts of wood, concrete, granite, and the like with specific hand and foot techniques. Practitioners rely on repeated resistance training and the idea that, over time, the body can adapt to stress.
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When I watch a movie that I've been in, I'm watching it, but I usually remember what I was doing at that time, what was going on in my life.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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I always try to find things worth saying, things that are supposed to be said instead of being contrived. I do a ton of writing.
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I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?
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I am completely obsessed with numbers and data. I have become a scientist in later life.
