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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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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I'm not the healthiest eater, but I try to watch what I eat during the week. I kind of splurge on the weekends and eat french fries and pizza.
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One of the things we need to do with North Korea, which is a rogue nation, is to get the international community in support of further sanctions, of keeping pressure on the North Korean regime.
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You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable.
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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
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I love my legs because they make me powerful and they make me feel strong. They've held up ever since I was young and have helped me get where I am today and be this successful.
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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
