Annette Bening Quotes
I do have to take care of myself, not only because I'm in the movies, just for mental health reasons. I exercise for me. You know, maybe it would be nice to not have to do that in order to feel good, but I do. I feel like I have to, to feel good. To clear my head and all of that, so.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I want to serve the people.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are.
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We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.
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Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.
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There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.
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Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.
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I do have to take care of myself, not only because I'm in the movies, just for mental health reasons. I exercise for me. You know, maybe it would be nice to not have to do that in order to feel good, but I do. I feel like I have to, to feel good. To clear my head and all of that, so.
