Tallulah Bankhead Quotes
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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The conditions were terrible. The farmworkers were only earning about 70 cents an hour at that time - 90 cents was the highest wage that they were earning. They didn't have toilets in the fields; they didn't have cold drinking water. They didn't have rest periods. People worked from sunup to sundown. It was really atrocious.
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By the time I got to 'Silence of the Lambs,' I was madly in love with close-ups because I'm madly in love with actors, and a basic premise of 'Silence of the Lambs' is the story about two people fighting their way into each other's heads.
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As a child in North London it never crossed my mind that I would ever play the Wicked Witch of the East.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
