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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I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.
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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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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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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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The kind of in-depth investigative journalism we practice at 'Frontline' is thoughtful, rigorous, and time-intensive. It requires us to constantly seek untold stories and to give our producers and reporters the time and resources to dig into them deeply.
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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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There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
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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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And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.
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Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.
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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.
