Jane Austen Quotes
What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.
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We know that when Main Street does well, so do American families.
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George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
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The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.
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I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
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What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?
