Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
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Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I've been training quite hard.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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I don't think life gets any better than sitting in the sun while a legend of French cinema tells you stories about making 'Belle de Jour' and other wonderful films, and eating great food.
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Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.
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Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
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Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.
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You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.
