Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people. (5 November 1958)
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There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to be on the bitcoin blockchain - it's going to be a number of different assets here. And the best way to invest in that is a diversified portfolio.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.
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That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.
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I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus, that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.
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If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people. (5 November 1958)
