Christie Hefner Quotes
Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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The long days are no happier than the short ones.
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I get up early, but it doesn't mean I like getting up early.
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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
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Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
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I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two children beside me... Everything I've done since then was for the purpose of making women look stronger, not naïve. And so, when everyone started saying I was a misogynist, that really freaked me out. They didn't know me. They didn't know what I had seen in my life. That was the first part of fashion that I hated - people labeling me without knowing me.
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Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.
