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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
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Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.
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I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'
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The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or sexuality would not be asked, or where scholars or academics are working in small little corners of the universities trying to raise these questions and being told that either that they're strange or not appropriate or being actively opposed. There are other places where there is very active scholarship going on. Certainly on gender.
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As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.
