Bette Davis Quotes
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
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I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
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In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.
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Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
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I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
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No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland.
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When I was a teenager, I went to Europe on a backpacking trip by myself, and I met a woman who was following Sebadoh. It was the early 1990s, and that was my introduction to indie rock.
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Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink and ice blue and all kinds of bright colors. And I dyed furs.
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Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
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Even though Haitian women are considered the 'poto mitan' - the 'central pillars' of the family and their communities - they are often the most underserved members of already poor communities.
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I've always liked men better than women.
