Illeana Douglas Quotes
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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I love London, I love the British people.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
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We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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When you grow up in that (multi-ethnic) environment, you see the world differently. Being a mixed-race child, I didn't always see colour in people, I really didn't. It was other people that made me see the colour all the time.
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I like to talk. That's why I can't karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a public space. I got to say, though, with smartphones and instant upload of everything, our generation and definitely the next generation coming up, it's going to be hard to act a fool.
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Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.
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I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.
