Edith Wharton Quotes
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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There are three relations between thee and other things: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which all things come to all; and the third to those who live with thee.
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People can pick and choose what they want out of it, but I feel like I'm a modern day Renaissance man of anything you could want me to do... except be six inches taller.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
