Oriana Fallaci Quotes
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
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My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.
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I don't take anything Hillary Clinton is going to say at all as true. I'm not going to take her on her word.
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For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
