Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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I don't crave Hollywood.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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I was always the hero's girlfriend or wife - actually, the woman with no voice.
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I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.
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The first weekend after the attacks of September 11, George W. Bush had a meeting at Camp David with his top advisors, including Colin Powell, the secretary of state. And there was a lively debate about Iraq policy, in which some people from the Pentagon were arguing that the war against terrorism should include Saddam Hussein.
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To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.
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I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.
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For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.
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Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.
