Virginia Madsen Quotes
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.
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I want every movie to be like a big family and a great adventure.
