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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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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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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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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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've always had an addictive nature.
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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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It's kinda all about image.
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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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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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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 never had any technical training. I never considered that, one day, I'm going to be Beyonce like a lot of girls aspire to be. It just kind of happened.
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It is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time.
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There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
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The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
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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.
