John Henry Newman Quotes
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are living in these conditions.
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A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
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Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.
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No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.
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The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
