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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You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.
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'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.
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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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One of the torturous things about my job is that, as time goes on, you get more and more clarity on all the things you've screwed up and all the mistakes you've made.
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I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I could finance comics myself, I lasted only a little reading superheroes.
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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
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I've only been in one relationship in my entire life so far. When that ended, I decided being with someone is not for me. I like my own company the best.
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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
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Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.
