Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes
No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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I've been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you've got to reinvent yourself. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. I've tried to take a chance with every film I've done - I've never done it the easy way, and I think that's because that's what excites me, is making as big a mountain as I can in front of me, and just trying to mount it.
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I'm absolutely shocked. I can't believe he went that high.
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
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Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.
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I believe as long as we allow conditions to exist that make for second-class citizens, we are making of ourselves less than first-class citizens.
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No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
