Adah Isaacs Menken Quotes
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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You have to follow that next step.
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
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My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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I'm looking forward to losing the long locks at some point. But it's been fun, and I do enjoy it.
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Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.
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If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?
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My photo has nothing to do with the person I am, the dreams I have, the family I want to build, the family I'm from.
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Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.
