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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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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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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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
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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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But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.
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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
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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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Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
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Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.
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When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
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Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
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Partner dancing is a cultured act.
