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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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.
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Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer.
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Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.
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We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
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From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
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School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there is no doubt that coming generations will think that our form of world trade and distribution of the world's benefits were just as inconceivable and inhuman.
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You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.
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Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.
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But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?