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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My father was an agnostic.
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I don't really think about recognition; I'm not really involved.
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There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.
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If I lie, I forget what I said the first time. I won't remember the lie. I don't know how people do it.
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I've never changed my approach to acting. I've always felt like I've gotten better. I think that all of us can get better. I feel like, in my acting, I'm better than I was three pictures ago. I think about it. I'm a slow study. It takes me a long time to grasp the material, in order to perform it. But when I come to the set, on the first day, I know the whole movie. That's why I have to start early.
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Yes," I said, "for the love of God!
