Sarah Brightman Quotes
You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
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Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.
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We will be just as ruthless as any of our targets. We will go for the throat.
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
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What we love about this life are the things that resonate with the life we were made for. The things we love are not merely the best this life has to offer—they are previews of the greater life to come.
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You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
