Blake Lively Quotes
I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.'

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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
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It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.
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But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.
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I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
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I realize that you have to show up for your life.
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I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.
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I thought 'Mud' would be such an easy film for people to understand.
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I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.'