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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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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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 think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do and don't think about the package.
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I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me to want to give what she felt was a better chance.
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Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.
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Yes," I said, "for the love of God!
