Bette Davis Quotes
May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is - and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.
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To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress -- who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood -- and to watch fluctuations of ups and downs is difficult. She did mainly television, so I think I associated that with a life of inconsistency. As I've come into my own, I realize it has nothing to do with the medium. It has broadened my horizons in my own mind and ultimately it is about the character for me. If I read something and I fall in love with the character, no matter what it is, I'm eager to do it. That is what happened with Gwen [on "Angel"].
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.
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I am not a collector of deserts!
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May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is - and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
