Ann Cotton Quotes
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
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Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.
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I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.
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I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.
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Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life'.
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When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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Joss Whedon, he is really hands-on, and he wants every character to have a life on and off screen.
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Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
