Geena Davis Quotes
Dressing up used to be more of a thing. My dad wore a suit always. Now you think, why bother?
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I don't want to be a Major League coach.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.
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I don't consider myself to be a quote-unquote 'good girl'. I'm not prim and proper and polite. I'm very honest, and I love talking about sex, or people's deviances. I love psychology. I like listening to or talking about any personality traits that are unusual. That's what I like about acting.
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All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.
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I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing on stage until you remember your line - you hope you sound convincing to the audience. The key is to have enough material, enough threads, so that there's something that can be satisfyingly drawn to a conclusion.
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As featured in The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley and cited in Malcolm X: Why I Embraced Islam by Yusuf Siddiqui.
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Dressing up used to be more of a thing. My dad wore a suit always. Now you think, why bother?
