Saoirse Ronan Quotes
For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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I was born a singer. I need to do that.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
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I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
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I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
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George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.
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America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
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In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.
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A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.
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Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.
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The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.
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I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.
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One falls in and out of love, but when one loves that is an entirely different matter, for that lasts through life and beyond, and is a rare thing.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.
