Kristin Chenoweth Quotes
Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
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Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio.
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Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It's all about hiring the right people.
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Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they're special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into your life.
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Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuosi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment.
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Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.
