Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.
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I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.
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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
