Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
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I feel very, very blessed.
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When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.
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One always wonders about roads not taken.
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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
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The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.
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If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.
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I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.
