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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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.
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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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My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
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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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Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.
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I loved Gwyneth Paltrow in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' and Reese Witherspoon in 'Election.' I love quirky films and characters like that.
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How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't. There's a hierarchy. Why do I pick out that thing, that thing, that thing?
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!
