Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.
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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
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Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.
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Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.
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I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.
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I think it's an impulse for human beings to want to suffer less, and we're kind of addicted to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.
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With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it.
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I lived a dual life, and when my dual life exploded, I began to feel much happier.
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When you say 'Monster Trucks,' people don't think monsters inside of trucks.
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The opportunity to be able to tell long-form character stories is something that TV affords and is therefore a terrain that a lot of filmmakers are interested in exploring.
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Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.
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I like to look casual yet chic. I love high fashion, vintage, and places like Zara, of course.
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I've been doing voices as long as I can remember. When I was little I could pick up on sounds, and then I discovered you could distort what you hear and make people laugh or disrupt a class.
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I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
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It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
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If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods, and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up, I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.'
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I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would.
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Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.
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When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
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The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.
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The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.
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We are expecting the most ambitious renewal of parliamentary deputies in the history of independent Ukraine.
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[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.
