Illeana Douglas Quotes
It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.
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I wanted to counter apathy and blandness. I wanted to shock homogenized minds with the experience of writing at high voltage. I wanted the press to assert relentlessly literature's importance. I wanted the press to be a national press and of national importance.
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It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.
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I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is.
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Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est àisé a voir' [it is easy to see].
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It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
