Rebecca De Mornay Quotes
I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now that I've coped with that. It was huge. It makes you realize, coming from a small country like Australia, what an enormous industry it is in America.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure out a way to stop it.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
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Soccer is easy if you work hard at it.
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I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.
