Gene Tierney Quotes
When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
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One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.
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He had seen trances before - wise men far in the east, who could feign death; a herbwife as she bent over her patient, searching for invisible hurts. But this was different. He could sense something here, within the circle cast by the light of the fire. A presence. Presences...
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Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.
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I want to be great at everything. I want to be the best at everything.
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When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb.
