Annette Bening Quotes
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money always went in my sock. My key my mom gave me, I put it in my sock - whatever it was.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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I'm very grateful to have had many brilliant students and post-docs who have worked with me. Potential is often hard to spot, but a key factor is whether they express a genuine interest in the problem and how they have thought about it.
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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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On the set I never know what day of the week it is.
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There's so many different styles to it. I use my athletic ability to create shots for open people, I run the floor, then also space the floor as well. That's what I try to do.
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'Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a void that was created when the UFC and 'The Ultimate Fighter' left and went to Fox. I think this fills a huge piece of the puzzle for the folks at Spike, in terms of demographics and what programming they like to do.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not only about myself but to others. Not to pat myself on the back, empathy is a quality I've cultivated over my life. It came naturally to me as a child.
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Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
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I'd like to really make the Montgomery Clift biopic happen.
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You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
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How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?
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I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.
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My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!
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I don't really have a choice. I'm getting older.
