Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

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I was a tomboy.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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I was introduced to cinema by C-grade films that played in my village, Budhana, in UP. Only films by Dada Kondke, Mahendra Sandhu, and Kanti Shah were available.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.
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Music can tear me up inside.
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I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'
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When you watch the films that I'm inspired by - from the '60s and '70s - it's not about the special effects: it's about the story; it's about characters and relationships.
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My writing process hasn't changed - it's is the same whether I'm working on a Y.A. novel or, as now, a new novel for adults. A lot of reading, a lot of research if the subject warrants it, a lot of sticky notes and scraps of paper - and get to work.
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I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look.
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I need to challenge myself and to try to improve my knowledge. That's my goal.
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I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.
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Before 'Homeland,' I had £80 in the bank and no idea what I was going to do. I seriously considered giving it all up and getting a job as a lorry driver.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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All things considered, if you're going to miss one film this year, make it Vanilla Sky.
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It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.