Kim Novak Quotes

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

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• Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Happy
  • Moments

• Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • World
  • Country
  • Game

• From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Job
  • Age
  • Door

• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Career
  • Film

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• Courage is found in unlikely places.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Courage
  • Found
  • Places

• I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Great
  • Think
  • Hand

• I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • School
  • Confidence
  • Year

• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Someone

• My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Done
  • Die
  • Myself

• In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Well
  • Snake
  • Worm

• The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Movies

• Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Guy
  • You
  • Follow

• Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Government
  • Market
  • Urgency

• I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • House
  • Dad
  • Myself

• I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Trying
  • Hope

• Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Often
  • Analogy
  • Misleading

• Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.

  

  Christian Lous Lange
  • Society
  • Profound

• He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Year

• I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed a helicopter pilot who had been ferrying weapons into Liberia, I realized as I left the restaurant that I was being followed and set up for an ambush.

  

  Peter Landesman
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• Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things I liked. But I fell into the money thing. I now don't feel guilty about it, but I am determined to give away the bulk of it and enjoy doing it.

  

  David Rubenstein
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Guilty

• Women are men without money.

  

  Paul Samuelson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

  

  Kim Novak
  • Money
  • Search