Naomi Watts Quotes
Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.
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It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean nun was not what I had at all. They were very, very smart, devoted individuals.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
