E. B. White Quotes
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.
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'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.
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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
