Ogden Nash Quotes
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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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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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.
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There are lots of things to like about being Eastern Orthodox - incense, liturgies, all the baklava you can eat - but you know what I like best? None of that stupid 'women's ministry' stuff.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
