Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I'm a character actor.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to what the characters can offer and what I can bring to them and then bring a being to life.
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What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
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I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
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'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
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The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
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I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.
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I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
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Being out in that heat for two weeks definitely drains your energy.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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There's nothing like the discipline of having to work on a cold film set on the Danubian plain in Bulgaria. Boy, does it get cold.
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If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.
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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
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I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!
