Madeline Zima Quotes
I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
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I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
