Mark Twain Quotes
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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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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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I have a passion for luggage - trunks and so on. I have a collection of them, but I can never resist buying another piece.
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I think I'm a focus for international attention.
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Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them, give me the labors of everyday, for that's what I sing.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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As an actor, it easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, 'Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?'
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To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
