T. Boone Pickens (Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.) Quotes
I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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I don't eat red meat.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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I want the single player experience.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.