Anita Brookner Quotes

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Anita Brookner

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GoodWomenBlameThinkSomeoneBad

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

John Cage

LifeBusinessDailyDaily LifeOur

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

Mel Gibson

YouNowRightNextSeeGuy

Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death.

Matthew Walker

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We can invent only with memory.

Alphonse Karr

MemoryOnlyInvent

America faces very real challenges. The climate crisis, inequality, stagnant wages, student debt - the list goes on. Rather than address these serious problems, Trump uses hate-filled rhetoric to divide America by race, religion, and ancestry.

Tom Steyer

ReligionChallengesProblemsAmerica

If there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.

Tom Hanks

MeHairSomeoneBadNeverOkay

When I was 14 years old, I went on location to film 'Mrs. Doubtfire' for five months, and my high school was not happy. My job meant an increased workload for teachers, and they were not equipped to handle a 'non-traditional' student. So, during filming, they kicked me out.

Lisa Jakub

JobSchoolHappyMeHigh SchoolOut

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

Josh Homme

PeopleThinkExampleGetIdea

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

Jonathan Demme

PerformanceThinkStopMoreSense

My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.

Ashley Benson

BeautyIconAngelina Jolie

I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go.

Alison Owen

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In 'A Hijacking,' the characters are low-status people.

Pilou Asbaek

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