Annette Bening Quotes

With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference.

Annette Bening

• Confidence

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• We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

  

  Ice T
  • Rap
  • Year
  • Old

• I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Think

• I'm a total people pleaser.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Total
  • Pleaser

• Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Mean
  • Living
  • Tradition

• I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • War
  • Army

• I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.

  

  W. Richard Stevens
  • Country
  • Job
  • Cold

• Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Come
  • Disappear
  • Many

• I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Buildings
  • Off

• My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

  

  Ian Harding
  • School
  • History
  • High

• The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Money
  • Education
  • Need

• If ballots won't work, bullets will.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Work
  • Will
  • Bullets

• If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

  

  Walter Map
  • Me
  • Die
  • Drinking

• The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Struggle
  • Fly
  • Blow

• I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • More
  • Knowing
  • Comfortable

• The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done since then has got some kind of doo-wop essence in it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Done
  • Kind

• My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.

  

  Yelawolf
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Movie
  • Earth
  • Day

• In 2014, I knew my English was not so bad, but I had no confidence in talking directly to an English-speaking reporter. I had to do a short interview with, I think, Reuters from France. I was so nervous. I practiced memorizing three sentences for two hours. But, I think that these kinds of interviews make me develop a lot, and that helps me.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Confidence
  • English
  • Develop

• Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

  

  Ely Culbertson
  • Power
  • Law
  • Jungle

• I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Women
  • Family
  • Strong

• A U.K. vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions.

  

  Janet Yellen

• In the 'fulfillment' of both the laws and duty, … the moral disposition ceases to be the universal, opposed to inclination, and inclination ceases to be particular, opposed to the law.

  

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Law
  • Moral

• With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Confidence