Hilary Swank (Hilary Ann Swank) Quotes
You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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When you're talking about capital and financial things, which I certainly pay a lot of attention to, I base those decisions on one question that I typically ask myself, which is 'Does it help us to build a better company?'
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Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
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I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.
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Life is extraordinarily resilient. It's been around for over a billion years.
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When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed.
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I slept with my mom until I was 16 years old.
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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I think there are always phases in life when things get intense or difficult, whether it's the sheer volume of work or personal circumstances. And I've definitely had tough moments. The way I approach them is just to tell myself that this, too, will pass, and take it one day at a time.
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You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.
