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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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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I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.
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Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
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Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
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There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place.
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I'm very sensitive about the fact that there's not a lot of good work for women in cinema that also deals with strong characters. But 'strong character' doesn't mean 'masculine character' - but something that finds the strength in femininity and the beauty in femininity. And something that says you can find femininity in men in some way.
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But you base everything on people you know.
