Bette Davis Quotes
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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I don't think that early hip hop stood out to be a social critique. A lot of fans of mine think that hip hop's ultimate responsibility is to critique social structures.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
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I have my fashion empire to build.
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I dreamed big. So it's so great to be living my own dream. I'm working in an industry that I want to work in, and I'm doing something that I love every day. So I feel really lucky to have had so many opportunities.
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Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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There's a certain amount of pressure that comes from playing real people. It's a pressure to deliver something fair and right to the real person and any living relatives. But generally, it's a joy, as you get to target your interest on a particular era.
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I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like Angels In America or in Wit with Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols. So, yes, I do find that very interesting and I'm sure that down the road there will be plays that I'll want to do that way.
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You can't worry what people think.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
