Oriana Fallaci Quotes
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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At no time have I ever said that people should be stripped of their right to the insanity of belief in God. If they want to practice this kind of irrationality, that's their business. It won't get them anywhere; it certainly won't make them happier or more compassionate human beings; but if they want to chew that particular cud. they're welcome to it.
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The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he Bill Clinton is not tough on crime.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
