Winona Ryder Quotes
I'm the type who'd rather not work than work on something I'm not into. I've done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?
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I write very slowly.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
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When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't have any poets. Even then, I kind of knew that was wrong, but I still thought, 'Wow, here's my chance to do something, to be of service to my country.'
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At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.
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When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and that's definitely reassuring.
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I'm the type who'd rather not work than work on something I'm not into. I've done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.
