Sally Field Quotes
The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
Quotes to Explore
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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I love to write.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
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Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity.
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And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
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The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
