Bette Davis Quotes
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Quotes to Explore
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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Music is about the performance.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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I think, for me, winning opens doors to all types of shapes and sizes and genres to come on the show and kill it. I'm probably the antithesis of what American Idols have been.
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
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When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.
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Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often too late, that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble.
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I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.
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I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.
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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
