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Daily Inspiration Quote by Anjelica Huston

"I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas"

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Huston’s charm here is in how she turns something mystical and vague (astrology) into a crisp little self-portrait with boundaries. She starts with romance-lite imagery - ocean waves, coastal sun - then immediately clips the fantasy’s wings: not the “wide-open and deep seas.” That pivot is the point. It’s a confession disguised as a beach preference, a way of saying she wants beauty and motion without surrendering to the sublime terror of vastness.

Invoking Cancer, “the crab,” isn’t just a cute zodiac aside; it’s a cultural shorthand for a personality: protective, moody, home-oriented, sidling rather than charging. The crab likes the edge, the liminal zone where land meets water. Huston uses that symbol to justify an emotional geography: she’s drawn to the sea’s surface pleasures (texture, sparkle, the performative calm of waves) but wary of what depth implies (risk, loss of control, the unknown). “Actually” does work, too: it signals she’s correcting an assumption, nudging the listener away from some grand, poetic seafaring identity and toward something more specific and human.

Coming from an actress with a career built on composed intensity, the line reads like a miniature acting note: play the attraction, keep the exit visible. It’s celebrity candor at its most strategic - intimate, funny, and slightly armoured. She gives you the postcard, then quietly tells you where the shoreline ends.

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Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is a Actress from USA.

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