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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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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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 running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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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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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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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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Some people like to drive a Ford, not a Ferrari, and some people like to drink out of a red Solo cup, not out of a crystal stem.
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The great thing about being a standard-issue, straight white person is you have so much time. Gay people, people of color, we have less time! We have to be a living Learning Annex to everybody. We don't have time to master hobbies like skipping rocks along lakes.
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I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.
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For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.
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Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.
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But you base everything on people you know.
