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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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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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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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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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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The last consequence of a dying Christianity is a dying people. Not one post-Christian nation has a birth rate sufficient to keep it alive….The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.
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A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming blow from the air.
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Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.
