Chuck Close Quotes
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I am honest; I speak the truth, and I sometimes probably go overboard and speak my mind.
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No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
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What is important is that we make sure to work together, that we understand our strength comes from unity and not division.
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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
