Barbara Bush Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
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It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
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I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.
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There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.
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Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
