Haylie Duff Quotes
I think that any moms that leave, even for the day at work, and come home every night will tell you that it's not easy.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I don't talk in ifs.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.
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I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.
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My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.
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The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.
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As actors, we need to do our parts exactly the way they have visualised it, because if we don't, we have to keep doing it many times over.
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
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There was no concept of fashion and catwalk shows where I came from.
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Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.
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The fun thing we get to do is mess around playing all sorts of different people. People that really existed, people that exist in a book - whom people love and have a specific idea of who they are, and you kind of have to work with that - or people that you can take a completely fresh look at.
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Pilots learn to use human skills to communicate information and make decisions collectively, which creates a shared sense of responsibility among the team for better outcomes.
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My poor mother. Every time I get a job, she asks, 'Am I gonna have to watch you kiss someone again in this one?' and I say, 'You're probably gonna have to watch me kiss someone in most of them, Mom.'
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I think that any moms that leave, even for the day at work, and come home every night will tell you that it's not easy.
