Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Quotes to Explore
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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I don't fear anything now.
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Honestly, this face of mine will always be familiar to people. It's that unique quality, man. If it's a dark and crowded room, people are just able to point me out. I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.
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In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
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You don't worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.
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That's what acting is: really make-believe.
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If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.
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Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
