Fanny Burney Quotes
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.
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There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.
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We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
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I booked a horror film called 'Where the Devil Hides.' It's... you know, a horror film. But it was the first full-length movie I'd ever done, and it got me my visa, and I could start work.
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Everyone should just be exactly who they are.
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Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
