Christopher Reeve Quotes
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.
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I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.
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I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.
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Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.
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African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
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Junior Blender is a hardcore dancehall head. He's in Supersonic, which is one of the top soundclash sound-systems in Europe.
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I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.
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I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.
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The queen of virtues is the recognition of one’s own flaws.
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It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.
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We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
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Man is an imagining being.
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When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.
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I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.
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You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.
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If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.
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To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.
