Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.
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God made them as stubble to our swords.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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We all know that one can never recreate the magic of an original film.
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Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.
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In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other.
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While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
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I will confess that almost all my inspiration has come from one emotion: fear. And terrible dread of the moment when I will finally be exposed as a fraud.
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I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.
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The fact is I still have quite a few good years in front of me. I still improve.
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Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.
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I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.
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Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.
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I don't smile much, and I never laugh. It's just something that's in me. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.
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Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
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A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
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Opportunities are abundant, but most people are afraid to do the work.
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I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.
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I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.
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I decided to be the best and the smartest.
