Geena Davis Quotes

Dressing up used to be more of a thing. My dad wore a suit always. Now you think, why bother?

Geena Davis

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ThinkYouNowWhyMoreDressing

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.

John Berger

LifeArtWritingStorySearchWall

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

Matthew Sweet

GreatNameGeniusDownGoConnected

People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I'm like, 'Look, Bon Qui Qui is a representation of a hood chick. That's it.' There are lots of hood chicks out there: some are black, some are Mexican, some are Salvadorian, and some are white.

Anjelah Johnson

CharacterPeopleMeBlackDoingOut

Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.

Sue Monk Kidd

PainMeVoiceGivingCreateWant

I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.

Sugar Ray Leonard

DeterminationDisciplineMeIceFame

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

Shirley Jackson

BestJobMeProudPersonManager

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Mason Cooley

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I can have a real long day; I can have a 14-hour day of intense work and then get home, and it's just me and TCM on into the night.

Michael McKean

WorkHomeDayMeNightLong

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually.

Mindy Kaling

LiveChildrenParentsMeCareYou

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

Aravind Adiga

DailyCityGrandfatherSurgeonUp

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Arthur Koestler

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