Audrey Hepburn Quotes
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.
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It was easy for the Democrats to attack the wealthy fat cats of Wall Street, the elite, and the privileged people - to portray them as a profiteer of the system, which to some extent, they are. Not because they wanted to, but because Mr. Bernanke enabled them to be profiteers.
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I was very aware that my path into the industry would probably be as an actress and not in production, that I could learn a lot that way. And I did.
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The fear was all he had left, but even that was something-he was afraid, so he must be alive! There was darkness, but there was Simon, too! There were not one and the same. Not yet. Not quite...
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First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venue; I just remember it was the last stop on the A train. It was, like, the Far Rockaways, Queens, and it was an audience of, like, three people.
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Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign.
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I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
