Ali MacGraw Quotes
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.
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When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.
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When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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The Dutch are a very practical people.
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If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.
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One of the ways you go after the debt, one of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people.
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I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.
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There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.
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I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.
