Brooke Shields Quotes
I'm just starting to realize the type of work that I want to do. Not everyone can fit into the sitcom world because it's so fast-paced, but it feels comfortable to me.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
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I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.
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I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.
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I love action films. I don't really like drama.
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I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
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I'm just starting to realize the type of work that I want to do. Not everyone can fit into the sitcom world because it's so fast-paced, but it feels comfortable to me.
