E. W. Howe Quotes
There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.
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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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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
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We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress.
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The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.
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There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.
