Oprah Winfrey Quotes
To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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It's a great thing to have: that pressure everywhere you go, that responsibility. I think it's good to have it.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I knew I wanted to make it a career but didn't know how. It took me a long time to grow into myself, but when my love of writing returned, it did so with an enormous amount of venom. It is now a mainstay in my life.
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To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.
