Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
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My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.
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For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.
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The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?
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God has a plan for you today: one designed to help get you to Heaven.
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I'm actually recording my second album now.... so I've just been recording and co-writing. The single should be coming out soon, but I feel it's pretty much 80 percent done. And, yeah, I'm excited about it. It's a lot more rock and edgier..
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Yes," I said, "for the love of God!
