Kaui Hart Hemmings Quotes
One day during filming, George Clooney was wearing his surf shirt and board shorts, and my six-year-old daughter was in the background as an extra, playing in the sand - playing herself. She and Clooney suddenly looked equally Hawaiian, equally related to the place I call home.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.
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As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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It had never occurred to me to write a historical novel, but then I found Hadley in the pages of Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' and wanted to know more about her - who she was, how she and Ernest met and fell in love, what it was like for her to be married to such a demanding and stormy force of nature.
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I like to buy girls shoes and jewelry. I buy stupidly expensive shoes. I got Louboutins for my mom and my girlfriend before. My mom was like, 'I can't wear these; they're too high.' I was like, 'Mom, you have to try them - they're so cool. They're red snakeskin!' She still wears them every so often, but she can't walk in them.
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One day during filming, George Clooney was wearing his surf shirt and board shorts, and my six-year-old daughter was in the background as an extra, playing in the sand - playing herself. She and Clooney suddenly looked equally Hawaiian, equally related to the place I call home.
