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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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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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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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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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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I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean.
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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
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I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.
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I'm a big believer in institutions.
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Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.
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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.
