Ali MacGraw Quotes
I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.
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On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.
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I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.
