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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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 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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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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On Bush 'Free Trade' policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.
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The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
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When I do think, 'Man a fucking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars' worth of narcotics would do me right,' I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high. (Scar Tissue, 2004).
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I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen some day.
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Your whole being is involved in taking care of someone else, worrying about what they think of you, how they treat you, how you can make them treat you better. Right now everyone in the world seems to think that they are codependent and that they come from dysfunctional families. They call it codependency. I call it the human condition.
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Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.
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Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
