Winona Ryder Quotes
I binge-watched this show Damages. Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these great actors and the writing is terrific. There are a lot of shows like that. And there are all these conversations right now about roles for women and being paid equally and all of that, but I think what it really is, is opportunity.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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My mother is my hero.
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Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.
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I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language!
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My dad loves to eat, and he loves everything I make!
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Because I'm a good girl, I tend to fall for the bad boy persona, and it ends up biting me in the butt. They end up not knowing how to treat me, and I end up completely devastated.
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Held in the custody of childhood is a locked chest; the adolescent, by one means or another, tries to open it. The chest is opened: inside, there is nothing. So he reaches a conclusion: the treasure chest is always like this, empty. From this point on, he gives priority to this assumption of his rather than to reality. In other words, he is now a 'grown-up.'
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I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.
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To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.
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TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.
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I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
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To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
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My height might be a disadvantage in some parts of my game, but it is a big advantage in rushing the passer.
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I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.
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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
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I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well.
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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
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I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but when you have that combination of a script that's really beautiful and extremely shocking, it's exciting for me.
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... where there was hunger there would also be bread.
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I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference.
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You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.
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A belief is an idea around which we close our minds.
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I binge-watched this show Damages. Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these great actors and the writing is terrific. There are a lot of shows like that. And there are all these conversations right now about roles for women and being paid equally and all of that, but I think what it really is, is opportunity.
