Tallulah Bankhead Quotes
My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.
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That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.
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I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
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And don't change for a guy, ever," Leah added. "If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.
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Nausea is a normal but unpleasant effect of pregnancy and a really good sign that it is going well. Women who experience nausea in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry.
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I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.
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I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.
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My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.
