William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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I actually have a movie that I was a supporting role in that I'm really proud of called 'Sun Dogs.'
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You can't use the fact that I'm bisexual against me if that's something I'm proud of.
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I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.
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Personally, I don't see myself as a sex symbol, but when people say that I get very proud, because I think people's sexuality is something very important.
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As far as my personal life my go to person is my husband.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
