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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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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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.
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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.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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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.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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Boxing is a lonely sport.
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Numbers are the most certain things we have.
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Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.
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I'm a believer in the Constitution and in the First Amendment. Not just for raising money but also for freedom of speech.
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Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.
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I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
