Madeleine Albright Quotes
the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.
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The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.
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the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.
