Gene Tierney Quotes
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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People ask me, 'Isn't it scary living on your own?' but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it's really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like.
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
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I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
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Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
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Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.
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Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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I'm not on Facebook, and I don't tweet, but I know plenty of people who love both.
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You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.
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Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."
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Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.
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The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside.
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In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
