Bette Davis Quotes
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.
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If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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Sitting there clapping and smiling... it's difficult. You're like, 'Don't worry about it, you just double faulted, you just played a really dumb point. Keep positive.' Then more clapping. That would annoy me as a player.
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I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.
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I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.
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Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
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It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves as Scott Pilgrim, so it's interesting that there are two kind of schools of thought about the character. One is, like, Scott Pilgrim is awesome. The second is Scott Pilgrim believes himself to be awesome.
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I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
