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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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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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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After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.
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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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Culture hides more than it reveals and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from it's own participants. Years of study have convinced me that the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.
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My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.
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Anwar is as bent as a three-euro note: just bright enough to think he’s smarter than everyone around him, just stupid enough not to realize that they’ve got his number. He’s a walking poster-boy for the Dunning-Kruger Effect: If he says he’s going straight, it probably means one of his idiot friends told him shoplifting is legal.
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I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.
