Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
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The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.
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I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?
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A talented executive whose interests are aligned with the firm's and is confident in her role will always recruit stars who exceed herself in various ways, but one who is worried about her value to the firm will not.
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Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.
