Imelda Marcos Quotes
My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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I guess you could say I took the hard route. That doesn't work for everybody, but it's worked out all right for me.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
