Bentley Little Quotes
His shoulders slumped as though he were a human-shaped balloon that had just lost half of its air.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.
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I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, 'I know I really can do this with actors.'
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My home has always been show business.
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I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.
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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can.
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The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
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To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.
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I'm so freaking happy when I talk to people who saw 'The Greatest.' I love that movie. It was the most intense job.
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In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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His shoulders slumped as though he were a human-shaped balloon that had just lost half of its air.
