Arna Bontemps Quotes
Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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Scarlett Johansson was wonderful in 'Lost in Translation,' and then, seemingly within a couple of weeks, she became completely Hollywoodised. I was shocked. I didn't recognise her. I hope to God it's just a phase.
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There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.
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It got to the point where I sat on the side of the bed in a hotel room in London in early-1990 and said to whoever or whatever: 'If you are there will you please contact or leave me because you are driving me up the wall'.
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Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
