Sandra Bullock Quotes
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
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Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
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If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
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I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.
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In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.
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I know I've got a lot of my mother in me.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.
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Uniqueness was something my mother pounded into me.
