Isabella Rossellini Quotes
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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Conservation of energy also protects our environment.
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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.
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Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.
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Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.
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Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat - to learn to die - is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to harmonize. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
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Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.
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Both my mother's family and my father's family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so that's the way I see myself.
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I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
