Sarah Bernhardt Quotes
The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... he must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don't need to go to the gym! I'm chasing after my daughter everywhere she goes.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
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It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
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We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your clock is here, and so on. We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself. And the hands of a clock are a physical variable like any other. So in a sense we cheat because what we really observe are physical variables as a function of other physical variables, but we represent that as if everything is evolving in time.
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I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.
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The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.
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The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... he must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.
