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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I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!
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I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.
