Barack Obama Quotes
Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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I love to share in a scene - I'd rather share than be alone.
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Daddy Fat Sacks B-I-G B-O-I, its that same motherfucker that put them knucles to your eye.'
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I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
