Sandra Bullock Quotes
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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There's no people like show people.
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I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you're always hurrying. And sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here and there.
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I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.
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Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
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Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
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I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. That opposition hasn't changed.
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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
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Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.
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People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power.
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To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.
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Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star bullshit. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs.
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I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'
