Katharine Graham Quotes
There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.
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It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
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Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.
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The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.
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There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.
