Dominique Swain Quotes
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
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I move around, like a true Kazakh nomad.
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I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.
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I started from B-grade films, and today I'm the number one actress of this country... whereas other actresses, whom you might call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched... they are still there and have not risen to another platform.
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I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.
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Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.
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He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.
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He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.
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I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get to close: I don't like to touch things, that's why my work is so distant from myself Nicolas Love, April 1987
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Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
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For me, what makes you laugh makes you laugh.
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The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
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Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
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When he let Kennedy use his column to send signals to Nikita Khrushchev, or lent his skill to Vandenberg to reinforce the anti-Soviet consensus in American diplomacy, he wasn't acting as a reporter but as a patriot. This urge may be a dereliction of duty in the journalist, but it is a sign of decency in the man. That the two impulses in journalism should so often be at odds — duty versus decency — tells us more about the trade than most of us care to know.
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We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
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The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements.
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I eat meat, the rarer the better.
