Annette Bening Quotes

Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

Annette Bening

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The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

John Edwards

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Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

John Erskine

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If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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I went through those times in my life where I started to get bitter and angry, and you're like, 'Why am I even a Christian? I don't like any of these people that call themselves Christians.' That's when I had to go spend time with God, and He had to remind me I'm walking with Him and not these people.

Sonny Sandoval

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If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

Shirley MacLaine

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I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

Tom Brokaw

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I think we need to stand with Israel.

Ron DeSantis

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I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.

Rupi Kaur

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I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.

Miriam Margolyes

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I believe fundamentally in the kindness of the American people because I have been a beneficiary of it.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy.

David Suzuki

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Something Dylan and I really don't care much for is leaning into the identical twin thing. It doesn't make sense.

Cole Sprouse

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