Cheryl Strayed Quotes
My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.
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I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
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Mike Webster's death was significant. Iron Mike. The best center in the NFL. Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. Four Super Bowl rings. He had played in more games - 220 of them - than any other player in Steelers history.
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I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.
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In the beginning, before the creation of Heaven and Earth, God made the angels; free intelligences and free wills; out of His love He made them, that they might be eternally happy. And that their happiness might be complete, He gave them the perfection of a created nature; that is, He gave them freedom.
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As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
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I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.
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My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.
