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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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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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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Everyone knows how physically demanding 'Newsies' is in terms of the dance, but even the guys in the toughest tracks remark that the singing in this show is often the hardest part. The newsboys are teenagers, and Alan Menken wrote this music in the top of a guy's range.
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We've explored very little of the ocean. We really don't know what's out there. But people think we've figured it all out.
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Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.
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Gandhi was a strange guy. There was this simplistic manner; but nobody knows what it cost to provide the simple life of Mohandas Gandhi. Nobody. He traveled on a train by himself.
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I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.
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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.
