Gwyneth Paltrow (Gwyneth Kate Petrol) Quotes
It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.
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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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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?
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The good thing is that I'm always honest.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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At restaurants, I try to tell them not to bring the bread basket, but what's the point of going out to eat if I can't enjoy it?
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I try and be a little bit chic. I wouldn't wear sweatpants. I wouldn't wear a twinset.
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I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.
