Josephine Baker Quotes
God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.
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I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.
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Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
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It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.
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I don't like it when people don't act on their words.
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The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again … It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.
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It's a large as life and twice as natural.
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When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
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In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
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Wasted is when you have a hankering for ice cream.
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Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.
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God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
