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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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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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 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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One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.
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However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
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I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.
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Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.
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One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
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I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but I admire even more his contribution to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and body as one, and not two separate things.
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I think I'm a good Canadian, but I'm not the greatest Canadian.
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I was the first child at four at a modeling agency, so I had an advantage.
