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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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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I know that Oprah and I mean a lot to each other... I know at all times I have somebody that I can count on always.
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Doctors didn't know what to do with me.
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Marriage advice to Dan Pfeiffer in Yes We Still Can, chapter 9, (19 June 2018); as quoted in 'Barack Obama says these are the three questions you must ask someone before you marry them', by Narjas Zatat, The Independent, (7 July 2018).
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'Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly... something changes. It is a constant balancing act.
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The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.
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But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?
