Cybill Shepherd Quotes
I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And then when I got older, I lied to everybody I was having sex with, so I could have sex with other people.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.
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I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn't understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.
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I don't know Arabic. I can't speak or write it.
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Sometimes you win by losing.
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I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And then when I got older, I lied to everybody I was having sex with, so I could have sex with other people.
