Eva Marie Saint Quotes
I don't get nervous on a stage; I don't get nervous in interviews. I don't get nervous.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
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Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
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The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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The two things that I require for anyone who's around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh.
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Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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I shake hands on the first date.
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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."
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Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation and entreaty: 'If you are determined to commit suicide, why not come home and do so in a quiet lady-like manner?'
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I don't get nervous on a stage; I don't get nervous in interviews. I don't get nervous.
