Wendell Willkie Quotes
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.
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Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.
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My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it.
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By creating a context of pressure, I can exact more preciseness, more brilliance. It's just as if coal is subjected to enormous pressure, you can get a diamond.
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I believe we're stronger when we speak loudly and unapologetically for human rights; when we stand with our allies against common threats like terrorism, radicalization, and poverty; and when we unite to prevent the world's most dangerous regimes from acquiring the world's deadliest weapons.
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Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.
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I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
