E. Lockhart Quotes
Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.
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I think it would be great to have more female directors making huge-budget movies.
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The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.
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Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.
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Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.
