Brooke Shields Quotes
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
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You were born as the one you are.
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Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
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I live in Atlanta, Georgia, and none of the other Backstreet Boys live in Georgia. So a lot of times, when people come to my house they're like, 'Hey, is A.J. here?' Or, 'Is Kevin here?' Or, 'Is Nick in the bathroom?' People think we live together and we spend all the time in the world together, but we really don't.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I feel that a lot of human spirituality stems from the belief that we are unique and special in the universe, but maybe we are just what happens when there is proper temperature and proper distance from the right type of star.
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The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.
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I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
