Charlotte Saunders Cushman Quotes
Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's workings; and, spite of all your skill, I read to the depths." This is a truth more or less powerful, as one is more or less gifted by the good God.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.
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There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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My biggest regret is that I wasn't able to help give our fans a championship.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.
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You always learn something from mistakes.
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I don't take a scene or word for granted.
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One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.
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I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
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I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.
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A good man never fights with a woman.
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How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.
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Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.
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I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying
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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the 'best' American higher criticism.
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I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.
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Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's workings; and, spite of all your skill, I read to the depths." This is a truth more or less powerful, as one is more or less gifted by the good God.
