William Collins Quotes
Not to say that authors are all such sourpusses, but you meet the author in the best possible way, on the written page. I am at my best there, more patient, more thoughtful.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.
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I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'
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I don't think of myself as a stubborn person. I am here doing a job to the best of my ability.
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Not to say that authors are all such sourpusses, but you meet the author in the best possible way, on the written page. I am at my best there, more patient, more thoughtful.
