Gene Tierney Quotes
I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.
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I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
