Anais Nin Quotes
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
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Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.
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I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
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I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.
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I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.
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Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
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When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
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Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
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Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
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I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.
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When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.
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The boundaries of "our universe" are not the boundaries of "the universe."
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I'm so glad I'm not a dentist. How many times does someone say, 'Oh, Doc, it felt so good when you were drilling my teeth'? Never. But when you give someone a wonderful cookie, you put a little of yourself in, and you see someone's face light up - that's immediate approval.
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Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
