Saffron Burrows Quotes
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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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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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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The only journey is the one within.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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We're mortal - which is to say, we're ignorant, stupid, and sinful - but those are only handicaps. Our pride is that nevertheless, now and then, we do our best. A few times we succeed. What more dare we ask for?
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Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason.
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Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
