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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I'm an independent woman and a feminist.
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I don't see any point in playing the game if you don't win, do you?
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More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape. There are times when you go to learn, when you go to be moved, you go to be transported, and there are really times when you go to escape. And I personally escape more happily into a romance than I do violent movies.
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The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
