John Singer Sargent Quotes
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.
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Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.
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I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.
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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
