Anna Ewers Quotes
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	I have many, many gay friends.   
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	If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.   
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	On election night 2000, I had never met then-Governor Bush, though I'd supported him for years. I believed he would be a strong, optimistic and gracious president with solid conservative principles and a big heart.   
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	I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.   
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	Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.   
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	The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.   
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	You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well.   
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	But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.   
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	I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.   
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	I normally work out six days a week. I'll do Pilates on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and I'll do cardio on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.   
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	My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.   
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	When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.   
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	Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.   
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	Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.   
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	The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.   
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	If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.   
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	Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.   
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	To lie is to intentionally mislead others when they expect honest communication.   
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	The goal of federal regulations should be to promote health and safety, but regulatory enforcement must be balanced with common-sense policies and assistance for businesses.   
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	Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.   
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	I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.   
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	Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.   
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	I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.   
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	I like to head upstate to the Catskills, to Woodstock.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					