Leighton Meester Quotes
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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Those beliefs about the essential goodness or beauty of the world are fundamentally paper-thin bullshit. There's not an essential belief that isn't a contingent belief. It could all be destroyed in a second, at any second. And I have an issue with that.
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To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.
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Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?
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When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.
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People are pretty respectful for the most part.
