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 had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.
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I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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I remember, once I was going through Nice airport with Roger Moore, and these kids came up and asked for our autographs. Afterwards, Roger said, 'It must be very strange for you. I'm an actor, and signing autographs is part of what I do. But you're a public figure who people don't really know.' He was right.
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The first record I made when I was 17. Labels merged and plans didn't work out, but plans never work out as planned. But I never stopped making music. I never had a backup plan. I never thought, 'Maybe I should just write, or maybe I should...' I just kept going.
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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.
