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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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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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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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.
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After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.
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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.
