Sharon Stone Quotes
I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
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But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation.
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The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.
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I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
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Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
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Tak Fujimoto and I, when we started getting enough of a budget where we could afford the right lenses - 'cause we started out doing low-budget pictures together - we started experimenting with this subjective camera thing. And we kind of fell in love with the idea of using that as our close-up.
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The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities are also important. The question of believing in a set of creedal statements is a lot less important, because I realize the Christian movement thrived then and can now on other elements of the tradition.
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.
