Oprah Winfrey Quotes
You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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I'm actually not a big reader.
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The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book." "Naturally," said John.
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I guess in my house when I was growing up, I was comfortable trying to be funny. And my dad, of course, it bugged him sometimes. He was trying to rest, and I was constantly trying to say something stupid to get a reaction. But I like doing these movies. You can do it in front of the camera and then it's over. I don't have to worry about being in front of too many people.
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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.
