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Quotes by Actress
"Mostly we tell the story of our lives, or mostly we're taught to tell it, as a quest to avoid suffering, though if your goal is a search for meaning, honor, experience, the same events may be victories or necessary steps. Then the personal matters; it's home; but you can travel in and out of it, rather than being marooned there. The leprosy specialist Paul Brand wrote, "Pain, along with its cousin touch, is distributed universally on the body, providing a sort of boundary of self," but empathy, solidarity, allegiance--the nerves that run out into the world--expand the self beyond its physical bounds."
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"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."
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"In that moment, we knew that we were all weird, all in this together, and that addressing our own suffering, while learning not to inflict it on others, is part of the work we're all here to do. So is love, which comes in so many forms and can be directed at so many things."
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"To say that the emperor has no clothes is a nice anti-authoritarian gesture, but to say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inverted version of the mainstream's 'everything's fine."
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"All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers."
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"You don't achieve success, you attract success."
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"Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets."
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"You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it."
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"Oh, come on. A vamp marrying a human gets the fanged ones all upset, and Eve made herself look like the ultimate fang-anger to all the humans by putting a ring on one, so what did you expect exactly? Flowers and parades? This is Texas. We're still figuring out how to spell tolerance."
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"Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with aloud bang on the floor to glare at the two of them. "Excuse me," he said, "but when did my labbecome appropriate for snogging?""What's snogging?" Shane asked."Ridiculous displays of inappropriate affection in front of me. Roughly translated. Andwhat are you doing here?"
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"Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night."
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"Well, friend, I don't know about your tastes, but I tend to like it very bloody, Myrnin said. He shifted position, dragging Claire along like a rag doll without any effort at all. "Have we been introduced?"Probably not. Why, are you asking me out, sweetheart?"You're not my type, darling. Is this one yours?"No, Frank said, and looked at Shane, just in a quick flicker. "Let's say she's a friend of the family."
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"Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic."
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"Life is not about possessions, it is about purpose, perseverance and passion."
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"I had a good teacher.""Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass.""I mean you, dummy."
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"They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities."
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"Change is actually what you need to avoid.Assimilation is much more joyful than conformity,when you try to change you try to fit yourself to other people's standards.You deny your own values and opinions, and you adopt a personality that isn't you.And most likely you will be more uncomfortable even though it may seem like you fit in more, i would suggest you not to change. Just be yourself, the way you are.Because that's what makes you different and distinguishable and unique from every other individual."
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"A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions."
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"An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false."
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"That's very rude," Myrnin said. "I haven't brought my fangs our for some time. Not in mixed company, anyway."
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"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
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"I'm an expert at failure. That's how I succeeded. Failure fuels success, as long as you fail forward."
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"I am alone I am always alone no matter what."
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"We're just paper on a shelf, in the end."
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"Do be careful. I can't replace you as easily as all that."
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"Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts."
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"This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism."
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"Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!"
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"I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."
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"We often settle for what's available and what's available isn't always great. You are destined to achieve greatness!"
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"So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in."
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"The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it."
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