Maxim Gorky Quotes
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.
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I'm used to the older-fashioned way of mixing: playing with three decks, always turning and twisting knobs manically.
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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body. As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands and complications.
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The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
