Martin Buber Quotes
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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.
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Me becoming a person, instead of somebody who just hides and is afraid, has happened in tandem with me learning to write music and become a good songwriter.
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And the world's like a science And I'm like a secret And I saw you lingering still, still I saw you lingering still
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When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.
