Oprah Winfrey Quotes
When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.
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Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
