Bette Davis Quotes
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.
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Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
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Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.
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During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.
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I looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me.
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Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.
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I'll keep going until I get to the point where I can't get out on stage.
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Everything I've performed has been from my own head.
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The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.
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I like kisses that aren't too fast or rushed - that's what makes a good kiss.
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What makes me unique is that I'm normal.
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I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
