Oprah Winfrey Quotes
For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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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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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
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There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls.
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
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In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
