Marla Maples Quotes
I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I can paint in jail.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
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I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.
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I like to think of myself as the running LT. I like to run up the middle and wear defenses down. It's more exciting in between the tackles.
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I would love for people to look at me as a great singer but also know exactly who I am, the way that we have loved and respected people like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle, having gone through the different stages of their lives with them. That's the type of history I want to have.
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I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?
