Bob Greene Quotes
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?'
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
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Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
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The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.
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If I don’t speak truth I can’t seek truth.
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He has not lived in vain who learns to be unruffled by loss, by gain, by, joy, by pain.
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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.
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'Under the Poppy' is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who've been parted by jealousy - and a secret betrayal by Istvan's sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar.
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I really hate my hair when it's not braided because it's so big when it dries. When it's wet, it looks cool, but when it dries, it gets all in my mouth during a match, and I hate it.
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At the end of the day, we still make the things that we make. And we found that the best strategy in this very fluid marketplace is to not be tied into any given platform, but to be able to make good content, and good content will be able to live anywhere.
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We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.
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Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films.
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I was doing publicity for 'The Getaway'; people were coming in from all over the world to do six-minute interviews.
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By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
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Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do
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Be humble. Be yourself.
