Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
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I've used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn't have time to go shopping or pick up an outfit for a photo shoot. I think you should dress yourself, have fun with it - it's only clothes.
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I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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It's really important that folks be able to speak out.
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Give peace a chance.
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We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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I'm happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.
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'You know Adam?' Teddy asked him.'Do I know who?''Adam. In the Bible.'Nicholson smiled. 'Not personally,' he said dryly.
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Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
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When I was going through my chemotherapy, I realized not many people are willing to talk about cancer, even after getting fully cured. Celebrities and educated people are also very protective and private about it. I still haven't understood why. I decided to fight my battle out in the public.
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Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion.
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I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.
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If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
