Ali MacGraw Quotes
You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.
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My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.
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People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
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There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.
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Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.
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You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.
