Jennifer Coolidge Quotes
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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Music is about the performance.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.
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At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
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I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger - every time I speak on radio or television.
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I always wonder why people cast me in anything.
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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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The living blind and seeing Dead together lieAs if in love . . . There was no more hating then,And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.
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Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.
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I play so many weirdos in movies that it's nice to play an attractive woman.
