Mara Wilson Quotes

I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

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• The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• I'm happy to fight anybody.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Happy
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  • Anybody

• I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.

  

  Harold Ramis
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• I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

  

  Carla Bruni
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• I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.

  

  Fat Joe
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  • Fat

• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

  Dan Hill
  • School
  • Heart
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• When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

  

  Carl Safina
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  • High
  • Running

• Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • My Life
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• I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

  

  Danica Patrick
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• I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
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• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
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  • Choice

• We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.

  

  Sam Kean
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• Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

  

  Dana Stabenow
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  • Book
  • King

• When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.

  

  F. Gary Gray
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• I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Father
  • Career
  • Lost

• Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Hate

• With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure that had a huge influence on me. However, my father had more influence on me just by the way he lived, because the way he was at the racetrack was the way he was in everyday life.

  

  Jacques Villeneuve
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  • Father
  • Everyday

• I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.

  

  Antonya Nelson
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• Then there is this idea that the world owes you a living. Here is a little thought about that. It isn't particularly logical but it makes my point. You were paid when you were born, with the privilege of living. Death is all that is coming to you. Life came to you when you were born.

  

  John French Sloan
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

  

  Mara Wilson
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