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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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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When you love someone, you should see beyond their image.
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I can't remember when 40 points was the last place total at indoors. I knew we were on shaky ground coming in, but if you told me we would score 40 points - I'd thought that would be good for seventh place. I'm sad to finish last, but we're loaded with young talent that will help this team in the future.
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Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
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He had doubts about the utility of examination on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted common sense.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
