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My favorite film involving scarves was little Edie in 'Grey Gardens.' I often wear scarves like that, under hats.

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• I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • School
  • Day
  • Sick

• My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Job
  • Ideas
  • Fair

• It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • You
  • Easy

• No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Me
  • Stars
  • Sorry

• I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Accomplishment
  • Be Yourself

• I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Night

• Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Honor

• The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Important
  • Fight
  • Same

• If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Want
  • Me
  • Him

• In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Attention
  • Name

• Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• 'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • War
  • Lost
  • Vietnam War

• In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Value

• Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Life
  • World
  • Loan

• When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, 'I want to be like him.' This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • Society
  • Desire

• I only used my whole life one perfume, and it's Cartier's Les Must.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • Used
  • Whole

• I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

  

  George Washington
  • Friendship
  • Friendly
  • Courteous

• Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Football
  • Film
  • Gay

• An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here Rome with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Important
  • America
  • Film

• My favorite film involving scarves was little Edie in 'Grey Gardens.' I often wear scarves like that, under hats.

  

  Estelle
  • Film
  • Hats
  • Scarves