Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes
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On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
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I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.
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I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.
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Baseball is a hard game. There's going to be ups and downs.
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No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too late.
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Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that.
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I always wanted to try and come up with a new and difference voice for every character, so you find slight variations.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.
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Creation is a drug I can't do without.
