Winona Ryder Quotes
Sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn't do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.
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When I was studying comedy in Chicago, it wasn't long after 9/11. There were a lot Middle Eastern comedians who were doing bits about hailing cabs and being terrorists. So the first two years, I didn't do any of that because I wanted to separate myself from those guys. But race is a big part of who I am, and it should be a big part of my comedy.
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The great hope of society is in individual character
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Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.
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Sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn't do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality.
