Annette Bening Quotes
I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, 'Well somebody has to be in them,' so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
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I am happy in Paris.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.
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As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.
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Live-action has always been my focus and my passion. I love voice-over, and I definitely could see myself doing some voice-over, as much as I could, and even if I ended up doing only that for the rest of my life, and I could be successful at it, that would be great. But I think my real dream is to do films and live-action films.
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It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.
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The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underly the commodities that we use on a daily basis. And so food is like that.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
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I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, 'Well somebody has to be in them,' so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.
