Annette Bening Quotes

Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what is great about film.

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• J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Time
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  • Director

• Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Music
  • Me
  • Just

• I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Time
  • Home
  • Road

• A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • May

• I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Decisions
  • Reverse

• I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Tomorrow

• Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Personality

• Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.

  

  Lara St. John
  • First
  • Curiosity
  • Patient

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Help
  • Technique
  • Physical

• I don't ever want to be sad about my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Sad
  • My Life

• Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Community
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• The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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• Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Read
  • Wrote

• Someone once told me we have in our minds who we want, and often those aren't the people we actually want. Like, once there was a girl I thought was perfect for me - I had every box checked with her. But I just didn't feel anything.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • People
  • Girl
  • Perfect

• The best thing as a director is being able to be part of the thing that's so cool about a TV show, like running a character arc over six episodes or multiple series.

  

  Colm McCarthy
  • Character
  • Running
  • Cool

• I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • Time
  • Good
  • High

• Yoga is a means and an end.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mean
  • Yoga
  • Inspiring

• In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • World
  • Great
  • Celebrity

• Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what is great about film.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Great
  • Character