Gene Tierney Quotes
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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I've always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.
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My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.
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If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens
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In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
