Sarah Bernhardt Quotes
I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
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What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
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Hospitals are about healing.
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Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
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There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.
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My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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People want fashion from us, whereas they might buy core styles from other designers.
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There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.
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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
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The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone past Andy Warhol and all those clever, arty and witty things that were done and said in the sixties...the fifteen minutes, and so on. Now your celebrities don't have to do anything, they're just voted in. And that shocks me.
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To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful--
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I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.
