Norma Shearer Quotes
I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.
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I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.
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The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of it.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
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I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
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Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed by military bases all over California.
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Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Don't put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style statement. Pick and choose what feels good, and flatters your own body.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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I am incapable of directing a film like 'Agneenath.' I can do only what I am good at, so I would have been the worst choice to direct it. It has aggression, action and an inherent violence in it - things I am not capable of directing in my films.
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When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.
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I take my work seriously.
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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
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Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
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Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
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I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.
