Kim Basinger Quotes
I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.
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The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward.
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All down history nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding the corn for the remaining tenth, and been paid with the husks and bidden to thank God they had the husk.
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If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.
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It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
