Ava Gardner Quotes
I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
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Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles.
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I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.
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The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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… the beast made the noise of a cat being shampooed, a lonely wail of horror and outrage, of shame and defeat.
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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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'South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.
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Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business.
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It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.
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Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form . . .
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Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.
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I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.
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It [smoking] was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's face.
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This particular evening, a giant yellow moon crested over a clear warm sky, so every fixture, the owls included, was floodlit like a carnival on its last night in town, and moon-drunk roars came from every corner. A perfect night to go out and make some dirty magic.
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At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.
