Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
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There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
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I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.
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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.
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My biggest regret is that I wasn't able to help give our fans a championship.
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I'm always working. I work wherever I am.
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Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.
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You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.
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The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
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I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
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After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.
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While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.
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I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.
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I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time.
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I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.
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What I know for sure is that whatever has happened to you has also happened for you.
