Sally Field Quotes
I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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The Majestic Theater in 1990. That was one of my first real shows where I had 300 to 400 people there.
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The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can't do for another straight man.
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I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
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I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
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Passion is what drives me forward. Passion is what makes me go to bed at 2am and wake up at 6am.
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I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.
