Blake Lively Quotes
If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I love simplicity.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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It ain't over till it's over.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes to nonfiction, because writing a book of investigative journalism is an expensive endeavor, and the system works best if you have publishers making bets on authors.
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I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life - my father and mother are still in love, still happy.
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If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.
