Annette Bening Quotes
Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.
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I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
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We've always believed in our music.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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I was a dyslexic kid.
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My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
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I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.
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God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
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You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
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As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
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You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.
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Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
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How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?
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And, stretching in languid warmth, she contrived to twist her body into first one luxurious position, then another.
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All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
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I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
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The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes.
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I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there.
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Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.
