Brittany Murphy Quotes
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I think I was about 14 when I did my first makeup. I was like, 'Wow, I really like this what do you call it? Makeup thing?'
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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I remember when I got into Juilliard - which was just crazy to me, that I would be studying at a school like that - the choice to cut all my hair off was really symbolic for me.
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I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
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If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.
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Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
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My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.
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The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.
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It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
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Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.
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When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.
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My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period is one of disappointment. This change was the result of close observation on the spot.
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To talk about “the image” is to think metaphysically, whatever you do.
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The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.
