Barbara Steele Quotes
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.
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The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.
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If you take existing ideas and make them affordable and scalable, you substantially change business models.
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COVID-19 is a wake-up call for humanity to be born again. In Christianity, born again is an experience when the teachings of Jesus become real, and the “born again” acquires a personal relationship with God. In humanity, born again is an experience when the teachings of natural phenomena become real, and the “born again” acquires a personal relationship with the planet Earth.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
