Edward Hopper Quotes
I could just go a few steps from the house where he stayed in Paris in 1906- 1907 and I'd see the Louvre across the river. From the corner of the Rue de Bac and Lille (sic) you could see Sacré-Coeur. It hung like a great vision in the air above the city.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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I was a complete outsider in high school.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.
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Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really cater to the backpacker or to the overland traveler.
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I think it's a blessing that the show [Dracula] is on a network because it forces everyone to use their imaginations and be creative. The power of suggestion comes back. So, in the sex scenes, no one is ever fully naked, but I feel the suggestion is so much sexier.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.
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I could just go a few steps from the house where he stayed in Paris in 1906- 1907 and I'd see the Louvre across the river. From the corner of the Rue de Bac and Lille (sic) you could see Sacré-Coeur. It hung like a great vision in the air above the city.
