Brooke Shields Quotes
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
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I hate the term 'philanthropist.'
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Everybody wants to get along with everyone else in the sandbox. I'm that kind of kid, you know what I mean? That will never change about me.
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I have a whole, whole lot of respect for the men and women that serve our country.
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The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.
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The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'
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Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?
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Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him.
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Writing is like fishing. You don't bow because you made the fish. That's the difference. If you know that, then you bow for your labor.You crafted, you worked, you put in those hours so that you could catch that fish. But you didn't make that fish. You just caught the fish. That will help you stay humble and bow for the right reason and be very lucid about the work you do.
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage.
