John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
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Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems.
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When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes to your entire look.
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I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
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That is the danger of an idea, Jerzy. Once planted, you cannot control where the roots may go.
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Only the poor can create art.
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As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.
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My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.
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There's so much overlapping in science fiction.
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Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesn't? But famous-famous? I just don't care about it. And if you genuinely don't give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.
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It has been my experience that work on the screen clarifies stage portrayals and vice versa. You learn to make your face express more in making movies, and in working for the theater you have a sense of greater freedom.
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New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.
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I feel like there's this need that the Asian-American community has to feel like people. It's something that Asians in Asia do not understand about us.
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People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
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Each crisis brings its word and deed.
