Jane Velez-Mitchell Quotes
In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn't long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay's life began to shatter.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow.
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It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.
Antony Sher -
In 2007, Lindsay Lohan seemed to be on top of the world, a bona fide star who had her pick of acting gigs. But it wasn't long before the veneer cracked, and Lindsay's life began to shatter.
