Ben Harper Quotes
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.
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This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
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My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.'
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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
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You can't just say I love you, you have to LIVE I love you.
