Willem de Kooning Quotes
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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What you are comes to you.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.
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I'll keep going till my face falls off.
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I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.
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I have to change to stay the same.
