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.
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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.
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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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.
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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.
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Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.
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Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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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.
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If ballots won't work, bullets will.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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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.
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I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.
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6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.
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I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!
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I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.
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The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.
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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.
