Charlize Theron Quotes
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.
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'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.
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I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.
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I work real hard so the reader doesn't have to. I don't want them to have to look up words.
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
