Ann Miller Quotes
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
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When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
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I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you're doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes.
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Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.
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I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My interest in that whole world became very genuine, but perhaps started off a bit affected - a mixture of right and wrong reasons. I was always drawn to non-commercial music, perhaps pathologically so.
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My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
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I'm doing modeling to stay alive. I don't enjoy my work. I don't find it creative. You don't need brains, and there are no heavy qualifications. All it takes is not to be shy and to dare to make a fool of yourself. But I shouldn't complain, because I am privileged enough to be overpaid.
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When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
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Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.
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Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
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Natural beauty products are a must! I use coconut oil-based RMS makeup, and I slather almond oil on my hands to soak while I watch a movie.
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Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in which we live.
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I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
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I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
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He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.
