Tea Leoni Quotes
Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.
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I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.
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The 8 key words that will move practically anyone to your side of the issue: 'If you can't do it, I'll definitely understand.'
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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It's odd to look out there and see a bunch of Mini-Mes," says Williams. "You're wondering what possessed them to do such a thing . . . It sort of does a reverse psychology on you. You'd think you'd be like `Hey, all these people want to look like me. I feel pretty cool.' But actually it makes you feel more self aware and I'm not really fond of that.
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The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
