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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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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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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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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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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Eliza was my first name for two reasons. My dad was reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' which features the maid Eliza in it, when I was born. Then there was Eliza Doolittle from 'My Fair Lady' and 'Pygmalion.' My mum always loved the name, and I got called Eliza Doolittle a lot, so it stuck, basically.
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Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.
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I'm not really emotionally dependant on anybody except my son, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. But a partner... I haven't felt like that for so many years, I don't really remember what it was like.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.
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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.
