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I think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure.

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• Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

  

  Larry Elder
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• I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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• Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.

  

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• You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one like 'Castle' -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

  

  Harry Anderson
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• I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
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• It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.

  

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• When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

  

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• I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.

  

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• I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

  

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• At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
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• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

  Adam Grant
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• I did TV for a bit, and somewhere along the line, I started writing a column for 'The Independent' newspaper in England, and now I write features for 'British Vogue.'

  

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• The rule I have when choosing films is the excitement factor, I need to feel excited about the story and whatever message the film has - only then do I sign on the dotted line.

  

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• The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
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• I think that sometimes almost the bigger tragedy in a weird way is all of the future imagined creative projects that could have happened that didn't. I feel the same way about lots of brilliant people who die young, kind of senselessly especially.

  

  Chris Cornell
  • People
  • Thinking
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• I think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure.

  

  Bel Powley
  • People
  • Strong
  • Action