Hilary Swank (Hilary Ann Swank) Quotes
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
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When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.
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I'm also a sucker for a view. Take me to a high place where I can see the landscape or the stars or the whole city, and I'm putty, I'm melting in your arms. Then I think having a romantic night, getting a little dressed up, but don't kill yourself trying to force the romance. A bunch of little subtle changes that will make the day more special will amount to a big awesome day in your memory. I like little breadcrumbs along the way. Draw it out!
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My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.
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Life's too short to be a pushover.
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If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
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It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.
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You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?
