Lawrence Bender Quotes
If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
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There's no time for boys in my life right now.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
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If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
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Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
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And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.
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There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.
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If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.
