Dada Vaswani Quotes
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
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I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.
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Being in a space that's not a studio, it kind of creates an openness of 'We can do whatever we want here; we're not on the clock.'
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The preservation of health is easier than the cure for disease.
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If I am just, like, on a run by myself, I've never been stopped. Even if I'm at Target buying my own action figure, people would not believe that it's me. I actually was like, 'This is me!'
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At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.
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I don't believe so much in religion as I do in spirituality.
