Winona Ryder Quotes
My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.
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My mom and I are very close.
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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Implicit in the Hollywood formula of mom-by-option and dad-by-default is mom never at fault...to a fault.
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There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.
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You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the world is like. But this very, very important quality of subjectivity, this quality that allows us to take a distant view and say, "I am here, I exist, I have a life and there are things around me that refer to me." That me-ness, M-E-hyphen, that is what really constitutes consciousness.
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Composing demands a degree of isolation.
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I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.
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My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.
