Walt Whitman Quotes
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
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I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
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The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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Being on 'Whitney' is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There's an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I'll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love.
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I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn't oversaturated with karaoke contests.
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Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
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Goya in gratitude to his friend Arrieta for the skill and great care with which he saved his Goya's life in his acute and dangerous illness, suffered at the end of 1819, at the age of seventy-tree years. He painted this in 1820.
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Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.
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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
