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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I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost that wore a tie. A hobo.
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There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions.
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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Aside from an unwholesome taste for string quartets, and a certain gullibility about predigested sociology, she passed the McGee test with about a B+. Hell, an A-. Maybe somebody had given her the Vance Packard books.
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I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.
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The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.
