Adrienne Barbeau Quotes
I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts - that's not what I think of as sexy.
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I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
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Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
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The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
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People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.
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Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
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Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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I thought, 'Wow, if we could have a career that was five or six years long, that would be fantastic.' And, of course, never even thinking it would still be something I'd be doing in 45 years.
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The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
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I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
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I did grow up in a household where the narrative was about public service and how are you going to effect change and help people. I'm so glad I grew up around that narrative, but I never had the calling to go out and shake hands and try to get elected.
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I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts - that's not what I think of as sexy.
