Annette Bening Quotes
I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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A good leader must be fair.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.
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When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.
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I'm not making every decision due to my children. But I do hope they never see some movies I'm doing. But I do want to do more family-friendly movies.
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I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.
