Edith Wharton Quotes
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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Any time they try to describe the tsunami to us, I am so touched by how high they look in the air, when they explain it with their hands-they go so high.
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I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.
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This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.
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When discussing the rise and fall of empires, it is well to mark closely their rate of growth, avoiding the temptation to telescope time and discover too early signs of greatness in a state which we know will one day be great, or to predict too early the collapse of an empire which we know will one day cease to be. The life-span of empires cannot be plotted by events, only by careful diagnosis and ausculation--and as in medicine there is always room for error.
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I welcome it because I asked at the very outset of this for a court of inquiry to bring disinterested fact-finders to bear upon these questions.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
