"The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs."

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Jennifer Beals

#Directors Quotes #Cost Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.”
“A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.”
“A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from the pressure, you take something from him. ...A flirt doesn't do that. A flirt does a dance within the context of giving pleasure. Referring to this, referring to that. And suddenly, following the references, you find a little surprise. Nothing enormous. Nothing like 'Feed on me.' Nothing like that. Something small with a bow on it. It's a pleasure. A surprise, and a *gift*.”
“The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.”
“And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.”
“A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.”

Source : Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Emil Marriot (1989). “Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja”
“I was in love once. It was terrible.”

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