Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall'.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.
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Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.
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I have a fantastic respect for Liverpool the city, club and the fans, from the time I spent there. That respect will always be there.
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Younger women are willing to go out with high status males. If you look at the kind of women Salman Rushdie attracts, they tend to be intelligent, arty types. For her, it's a kudos thing. The man just wants a good-looking girl because he imagines that when his friends see him, they'll all think, 'Gosh I wish I was him.'
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I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.
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I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall'.
