Winona Ryder Quotes
It’s equally as important to me to be a good friend, and a good sister, and a good daughter. I’m very close with my family and friends.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
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Birth was the death of him.
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If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
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Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
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I've always been very inspired by fashion. I've always been a big fan of style.
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I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
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Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.
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I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.
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All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.
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In almost every case, cutting things back is a way of favoring what is left.
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Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.
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I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.
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Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.
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We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.
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It’s equally as important to me to be a good friend, and a good sister, and a good daughter. I’m very close with my family and friends.
