Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
