Bette Davis Quotes
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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Bullies always have another target.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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I think abortion is murder.
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I have matured a lot.
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
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By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].
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'You', the ego, live in your left brain. When we say that man is the only creature who spends 99 per cent of his time inside his own head, we mean, in fact, inside his left cerebral hemisphere. And in the basement of the left hemisphere is the library full of filing cabinets - the stuffy room that we mistake for reality.
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I don't want to be like Donald Trump or anything like it... I'm different than some people.
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The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.
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You have to be ready for luck.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.
