Stockard Channing (Susan Antonia Williams Stockard) Quotes
Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.
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The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
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There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.
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My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
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A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it.
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We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
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I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.
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There are some people, no matter what they do, it turns out badly. They have a problem: either what they do is wrong or things that happen were wrong. I was president of a company like that; it was called Grid Computer.
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Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.
