Ann Cotton Quotes
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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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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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
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Peace Within. Peace Without. Mi Zai
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My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
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So many people have said this, but it's true: 95 percent of what I do as a director is casting and getting people who can bear the load of what you're asking them to do and creating this emotionally safe environment.
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.
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Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
