Sandra Bullock Quotes
I love good romantic comedies. There just aren't a lot of them. But, I love comedies, and I'll never stop doing them.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.
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Let's be honest: the label of model-daughter-of-celebrity mother is... you know, I don't want to have that label. It's not who I am. It's not my values to go off someone else's name and to be pigeonholed as that. So in a way, that has really pushed me to be more independent.
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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
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As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
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I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.
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I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.
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I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.
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I love good romantic comedies. There just aren't a lot of them. But, I love comedies, and I'll never stop doing them.
