Ali MacGraw Quotes
Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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Riding through the city on my bike all day Cause the filth took away my license It doesn't get me down and I feel OK Cause the sights that I'm seeing are pricelessEverything seems to look as it shouldBut I wonder what goes on behind doorsA fella looking dapper, but he's sitting with a slapperThen I see it's a pimp and his crack whore.
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Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.
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The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity.
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Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.
