Anita Loos Quotes
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
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It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.
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I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
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Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.
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Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.
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Fate keeps on happening.
