J. D. Salinger Quotes
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I'm easily entertained.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.
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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
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You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.
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I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
