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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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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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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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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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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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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Once you have extrapolated the effects a particular science will have on society - cheap clean energy, rejuvenation - the political impact is quite easy to predict. The two are twinned.
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When you have great performers and have set your movie in the right direction, it's a beautiful privilege to let the camera watch the action unfold without spoken words.
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I would say a lack of sleep is a cause for feeling not so beautiful. On those days, I try to drink lots of water and put on the biggest sunglasses I can find.
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You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both.
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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.
