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 think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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When you're in love, your heart and your mind are in sync, and everything just feels right. It's a special feeling.
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It's always something to remind you that everything ain't never gonna be alright!
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Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.
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For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.
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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.
