Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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I had lost faith in biography.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
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I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.
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Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
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I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when you take parents who are forcing their children to do anything, I don't think it's healthy.
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The post-war 'publish or perish' tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. ... One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
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A class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increase capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.
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He stood, and heard the steepleSprinkle the quarters on the morning town.One, two, three, four, to market-place and peopleIt tossed them down.Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour,He stood and counted them and cursed his luck;And then the clock collected in the towerIts strength, and struck.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
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I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you're doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes.
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When I get a beautifully written piece of material, I immediately start imagining how I would interpret it. I love just daydreaming about it for months, breaking it down, seeing where I can spin something. How I can turn this into the most fun ride for the audience that I can make it? That's my job.
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I have a radio show for the Sirius Satellite Radio Network. It's an interview show. It's called The Spectrum.
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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
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I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.
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It was never easy, but I always tried my best and kept complaints out of my heart by holding tightly onto the hope that one day, I would read and write.
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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
