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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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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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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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.
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The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.
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After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.
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Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.
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Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility, and openness to the world around you, people have to respond because those same truths are instilled in them.
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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.
