Karolyn Grimes Quotes
I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I learnt early that always being analytical is important for a business. Being analytical as an attitude is more important than just having the aptitude.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
