Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
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Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.
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Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.
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Reason alone does not suffice.
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I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you're being careless or frivolous in what you're saying.
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There are some directors I hear about in nighttime or some I used to work with who walk around like gods.
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Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.
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I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.
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I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.
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I did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice.
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I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.
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Most of my mentors in my early career were men; I'm happy to see today the partnership between the newer generation coming through and more senior women leaders helping others advance their careers.
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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
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I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.
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People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.
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I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.
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I think rock music is getting better. The best (selling) music has been hip-hop for quite a while. So those guys are making the money and making the videos.
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The adulation from viewers is a huge stimulant for me, and it keeps me going.
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It's not really a curse or anything that you're blind; it's really a blessing.
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I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
