Gene Tierney Quotes
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.
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'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
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My party is committed to a federation.
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I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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When I'm not in front of the camera, I'm just like any other normal person. I'm a student. I eat when I'm stressed.
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I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
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You've got to be picky in this business - if you're not, then I don't think you have the option of longevity. You've got to be choosy and try and do something that's outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me, gives me that adrenalin rush.
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Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
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Lord Fancourt: Look here, am I any relation to him?Jack: No; you're Charley's Aunt, from Brazil.Lord Fancourt: Brazil! Where's that?Jack: You know–er–where the nuts come from.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
