Gena Rowlands Quotes
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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I have a great office.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
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Basically, Aristotle believed that every time you behaved unkind and immorally - performing actions your soul was not proud of - you tarnished your soul. The worst shape your soul became in, the worst shape your mood and spirit.
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To this day, I haven't felt like I've made it. I'm waiting for them to pull the rug out from under me. I kind of feel like George Plimpton; I'm just experiencing this whole business with the really talented people.
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I was in a show choir. I can't sing or dance to save my life, but I was very passionate. People said my parents paid the choir director to let me in. It was actually the parents who started that one!
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Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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But you base everything on people you know.
