Vanity Quotes
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee, But it will come to rise again.
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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
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Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.
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There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.
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Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
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What is your sex's earliest, latest care,Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.
