Ava Gardner Quotes
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
Umberto Eco -
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
Samuel L. Jackson -
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus -
My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
Dan Webster -
All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
Barton Gellman -
No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
Mara Wilson
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
Patrick Dempsey -
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
Edith Hamilton -
You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
Octavia Spencer -
In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.
Parker Stevenson -
Gene Wilder is so funny.
Kate Bush -
I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
Fidel Castro
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It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
O. Henry -
We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.
Wallace Shawn -
I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
Gabriel Byrne -
It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
Forest Whitaker -
My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.
Barry Lopez -
I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'
James McAvoy
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If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.
Kevin Spacey -
There's a misperception that autism is some thief in the night that takes a normal child and places an autistic child in its place. That's not true.
Ari Ne'eman -
There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.
Minor White -
I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because it's so important. The director is really more than half the battle of the film. You really rely on that. That's become really, really important to me, for sure.
Kate Mara -
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
Michael Caine -
I couldn't imagine a better place Australia for making a film on the end of the world.
Ava Gardner