Oprah Winfrey Quotes
You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.
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The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!
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I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.
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I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
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You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
