Alistair Cooke Quotes
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
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I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf.
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Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
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Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
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First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.
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Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.
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Maybe the world..has run out of room..for monsters.
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Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from.
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It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues.
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Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
