Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) Quotes
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no one you feel more protective of than the very same people who can drive you crazy.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.
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I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want.
