Annette Bening Quotes
Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your own journey, your own way of telling it?
Quotes to Explore
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I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.
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The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world.
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Markets really matter. Because the bigger the market, the more targets there are for the missile to hit.
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People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.
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Chemistry's a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.
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Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and find your way into your own journey, your own way of telling it?
