Eve Babitz Quotes
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.
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I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.
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There's still people who think me being married to a sista is an act. What, you think I'd make that up for a persona?
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As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.
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I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.
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I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.
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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
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The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
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Quakers are terrific.
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There will have to be some way to ensure accountability for what has already been found here.
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I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.
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Partner dancing is a cultured act.
