Luise Rainer Quotes
I don’t believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
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Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
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Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.
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I always just wanted to write and maybe direct. I'm really only interested in that. And yet the business that I'm in has forced me into being a salesman - that's the last thing that 17-year-old me would imagine I'd end up being. I'm uncomfortable trying to sell anything, but that's what you're doing every time you walk into a pitch.
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For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.
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I'm a huge pin collector.
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I don’t believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.
