Oprah Winfrey Quotes
This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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This is a massive and violent schism and rupture in the internal organs of today's global culture and this is exactly why many social analysts believe that if some sort of reconciliation between science and religion is not forthcoming, the future of humanity is, at best, precarious.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?
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I pretended to be interested in their secret undertaking, but in fact I was very sorry about it. Although the two siblings had involved me by choosing me as their confidant, it was still an experience that I could enter only as witness: on that path Lila would do great things by herself, I was excluded. But above all, how, after our intense conversations about love and poetry, could she walk me to the door, as she was doing, far more absorbed in the atmosphere of excitement around a shoe?...What did I care about shoes. I still had, in my mind's eye, the most secret stages of that affair of violated trust, passion, poetry that became a book, and it was as if she and I had read a novel together, as if we had seen, there in the back of the shop and not in the parish hall on Sunday, a dramatic film.
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I think Edie Sedgwick comes back, too. Every five or six years, there is always something about Edie, because she was so modern and stylish and elegant and hippie-ish, all at the same time. So I think that people will always love her.
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This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.
