Scarlett Johansson Quotes
We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President George W. Bush had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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You've got to change with the public's taste.
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I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.
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Because I'm a woman, because I'm a character actress, because I'm over 40, I'll be very interested to see, not just for me but for other actresses, how Hollywood treats us in the next ten, fifteen years. I'm hoping that it's not going to be so easy to shove people under the rug, as they have in the past.
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There's such a lack of sex in music.
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There are always younger and better dancers fighting to get your place. You get worn down by the fight to try to stay at the top.
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I'm not the athlete I was when I was training for the Olympics in '92 or when I was working out every single day. I have to live in moderation: I work out three or four days a week, and I smile while I'm working out - I really do enjoy it. I work out with my girlfriends and make it a social competition.
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We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President George W. Bush had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions.
