Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.
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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
