Kim Basinger Quotes
I was doing publicity for 'The Getaway'; people were coming in from all over the world to do six-minute interviews.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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I hate competition.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Midi is my hobby.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.
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There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.
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If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.
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I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.
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I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.
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I was doing publicity for 'The Getaway'; people were coming in from all over the world to do six-minute interviews.
