Felicity Huffman Quotes
Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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This town was built on nepotism.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.
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...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")
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Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
