Evelyn Keyes Quotes
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I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.
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I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
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I did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.
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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
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If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.
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That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
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There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.
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I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.
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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'
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Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.
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I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.
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A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room.
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Do not imprison those about you to your way of thinking; give your companion the opportunity to interpret life as freely as you do.
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
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When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
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I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.
