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• The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Today
  • Same
  • Started

• I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Look

• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Creative
  • Consequences

• I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Movie

• For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Better
  • Short

• No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Leadership
  • Organization

• A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Beautiful
  • Gold
  • New

• 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Air

• Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!

  

  Luigi Pirandello
  • King

• When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Comedy
  • Ego

• The nature of fashion is family.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Family
  • Nature
  • Fashion

• Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • People
  • Night
  • Growing

• When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Person
  • Hell
  • Survived

• I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

  

  Christopher Eccleston

• All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

  

  Andre Balazs
  • People
  • Good
  • Home

• I was always a performer kid - like, annoyingly so. I would put on shows for my family and direct my friends in little plays, and my little sister, I'd make up dances with her. But when I was 12, that was when I started taking it seriously, and my mom for some reason believed in me and helped me find an agent in Cleveland, which did nothing for me.

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes. I'd do a lot of things different if I could. I'd never, ever, get involved with surrogacy again. It's so weird.

  

  Mary Beth Whitehead
  • Different
  • Perfect
  • Weird

• My first company failed completely. And it failed at about ten months old. I had about 12 months of savings, so when it failed I was thinking: 'Do I go back to work?' And at that point I believed so deeply in what I was doing that I couldn't imagine anything else other than trying to make this business work.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• ...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Children
  • Help

• Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Knows
  • Honestly
  • Presses

• I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Think
  • Years
  • Difference

• I never let schooling interfere with my education.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Education

• We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

  

  Jonathan Nolan
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