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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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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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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My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
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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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The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance.
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Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.
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...what's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.
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I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.
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But you base everything on people you know.
