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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
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No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.
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It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
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Monsieur … I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
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Barry Levinson saw me on a tape and put me in 'Rain Man' as the waitress who dropped the toothpicks. The scene was talked about a lot. Then, all of a sudden, I started to get more auditions.
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When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.
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Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.
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My husband said 'show me your boobs' and I had to pull up my skirt... so it was time to get them done!
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The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.
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Frankly speaking, I like women. In my heart, I am still teenager. And I am very open and I don't want to hide this.
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Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.
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My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!
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I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions.
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There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, “why?” is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion.
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Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.
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Choose your parents wisely.
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I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
