Eileen Favorite Quotes
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.
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What would ultimately de-escalate the challenges of society would be for people to get educated, especially for more women to be educated because when more women are educated, they invest much more of their time and income in ensuring that the next generation would perform even more than they have done.
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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
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But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
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I'm always preparing for a regular life.
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The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'
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Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the crimes, follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.
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From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.
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For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.
