Oprah Winfrey Quotes
That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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I'm about my characters.
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I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.
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Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.
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There is a paradox. In retaining this integrity, the writer sometimes must risk both the state's indictment of treason, and the liberation forces' complaint of lack of blind commitment.
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If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.
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Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.
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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
