Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
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The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.
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Sweet potatoes are ideal for lazy days: just bake, then mash and mix with yogurt, butter or olive oil.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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I feel like there's no such thing as gender.
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
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I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
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Nothing changes until it becomes what it is.
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It brings me back to reality. The combine doesn't care if you're a senator or not. It breaks down whenever it wants to break down.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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We need to understand as a nation that you can't forever expect somebody out there, whether it's China or somebody in England, to say, 'I will always take America's debt no matter what.'
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It felt like a new day.
