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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The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
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Apple and Samsung are selling in such high volumes, and they're vertically integrated more and more, that it's very, very hard for anyone to compete against Apple and Samsung in the high-volume part of the smartphone or tablet market.
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Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
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Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.
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I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.
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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
