Alice B. Toklas Quotes
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.
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As a cosigner of the Veterans' Bill of Rights, I'm committed to making sure that veterans' issues remain a top priority in Congress.
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Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.
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He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry and Vin would hold him and do all these weird sounds and the baby would stop crying. It was really cute.
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Experience is never at bargain price.
