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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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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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 have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.
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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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He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
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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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Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.
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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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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
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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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Even with God’s help there is no substitute for the hard work.
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I'm not from Hollywood, and I'm also not one of the people who wants to do a tell-all, and I hate tell-alls. I didn't want to tell all.
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I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.
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Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.
