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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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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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 was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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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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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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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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We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.
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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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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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You can have your choice of men but I could never love again He's the only one for me Jolene I have to have this talk with you My happiness depends on you and whatever You decide to do Jolene...
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A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.
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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.
