Hallie Ephron Quotes
Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you're all that, only you're pretending you're not. And it's perfectly OK to pretend you're not, to be perfectly convinced, because this is the whole notion of drama.
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I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
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I've had lots of ups and downs. I've had situations where I've gone against the rules, and I've lost everything.
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I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.
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Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
