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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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.
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For me, being an 'American Latina' means identifying with and being influenced by both my American upbringing and my Latin heritage, and I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
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Dressing up used to be more of a thing. My dad wore a suit always. Now you think, why bother?
