Sandra Bullock Quotes
I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.
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One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.
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I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.
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You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.
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If you want to have more options as an actor, you just need to watch your weight, and I've ignored that fact for several years quite happily. Now the chicks have come home to roost.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
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I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.
