Barbara Stanwyck Quotes
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
Quotes to Explore
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
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Putin is like Al Capone.
Garry Kasparov -
One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.
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I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
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It's always been a dream of mine to be Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse, and here I am performing alongside Robert Lindsay and being directed by a major Broadway producer. Who said dreams don't come true?
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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As for us, my little friend, we entered the Communist Party because we were tired of dying of hunger.
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Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
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I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.
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Robots... I think that is a hot topic.
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I'm a very textural composer. I care a lot about textures and gestures. Electronics add so much to that. It's like a flavor - it creates so much texture.
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I have so much respect for what's funny.
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The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.
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Although I love this kind of comedy, sometimes I feel trapped by always having to be the most outrageous guy in the room. In particular, I'm working on trying not to be that guy in my private life.
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I have a weak spot for late '60s-early '70s yippie paperbacks and protest manifestos. I find them at flea markets or online. One of my favorites is 'Right On,' a compendium of student protests made into this 95-cent paperback with the most amazing graphics.
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Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.
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There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
