Gene Tierney Quotes
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.
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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
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Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
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It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
