Simone Signoret Quotes
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
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I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
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Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
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My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
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Where educators are raising and combining their voices, the seeds of positive change have emerged. Collective voice, exercised through the union, is power - the power to drive real change for our kids, families and communities.
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Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.
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I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film. I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film because I think it was a one-off before it was imitated a hundred times.
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A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
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I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.
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Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.
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I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake.
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I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
