Tallulah Bankhead Quotes
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Comedy is a shared experience, and I think it's great to open that to a wide demographic.
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American values, or Americanism, refers to what I call the 'American Trinity': 'Liberty,' 'In God We Trust,' and 'E Pluribus Unum' ('Out of Many, One'), the three values that appear on all American coins.
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Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas: Every revolutionary idea - in science, politics, art, or whatever - seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:(1) 'It's completely impossible - don't waste my time';(2) 'It's possible, but it's not worth doing';(3) 'I said it was a good idea all along.'
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The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.
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But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.
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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
