Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.
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You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
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I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'
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And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
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I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.
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This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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I look back at my old school journals, and they're full of self-hatred, full of me condemning myself for not being prettier, richer, more popular.
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The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.
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Take the tone of the company you are in.
