Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
Camille Claudel
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
Taiye Selasi
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
Carla Gugino
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
Natassia Malthe
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
A. J. Jacobs
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Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
Oliver Goldsmith
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My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
Katherine Heigl
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It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.
Bertie Carvel
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Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me?
Claire Forlani
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Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.
Katharine Hepburn
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Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
Douglas Jerrold
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Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
Marian Wright Edelman