Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I'm kind of a private person.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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I'm a big Stephen King fan.
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I like to write a lot of satire.
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My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.
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My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.
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I'm living what I always wanted to do.
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If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.
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I don't think I'm the best-looking actress around. I'm not Katrina Kaif; she is stunningly beautiful. There are some roles that might need a beautiful girl, and there would be a doubt in a director's mind whether he should cast me. But that perception will change with time. I'd like to believe actresses look better with experience.
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We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.
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It is very beautiful over there. (last words)
