M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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I feel like, maybe in the '90s, 'Rookie' would have been shamed for trying to reach a lot of people or trying to be 'mainstream', but I'm so pleased that our readers are happy to see me promoting the 'Rookie' yearbook on TV or whatever.
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At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.
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To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
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I love watching people's dreams come true.
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My nickname was Skinabo - 'skin and bones.'
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I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
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'Spin City' was a really wonderful time for me. I made friends for life on that show. I made friends with Richard Kind, Michael Boatman, Barry Bostwick, Sandy Chaplin. We're all close. It was a really wonderful time.
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Everyone has a Latino inside them.
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It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.
