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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Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view.
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God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.
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I don't want to be in boardrooms talking about hiring hairdressers and minivans. I'm not good at it, and I don't like to hire and fire people. I hate that. It's horrible.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
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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.
