Rita Coolidge Quotes
If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.
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God does arithmetic.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.
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Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel.
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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
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I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
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What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.
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I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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My breasts have had a brilliant career. I've just tagged along for the ride.
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Don't look back!
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The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.
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I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
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Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.
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The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.
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That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
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I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.
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I probably have a small number of people that are consistently advisors and mentors, but I'm much more likely to have a broader array of... almost like an unofficial board of advisors, where I know that certain people are going to be good for certain types of topics.
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The other problem is that the priority of many soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan is operational security: not getting killed. Now that is a very valid priority, but it has to be balanced against many other priorities, especially not killing too many locals in the process.
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Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.
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Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.
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If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.
