"Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting."

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Shirley Knight

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“If your leadership isn't all about you, it will live beyond you.”
“Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.”
“You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.”
“Anxiety is the normality of our age,”
“Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.”
“I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!”

Source : Joanna Baillie (1806). “A Series of Plays: The election. Ethwald. The second marriage. 3d ed”, p.9
“I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.”
“I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end up living a pretty rough life. At a young age, I just knew I wasn't going to give in because I didn't want to end up being one of those people in the neighborhood that didn't have anything and lived a hard life.”

Source : Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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