Adam Gopnik Quotes
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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Everyone is capable of everything.
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But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
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Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot.
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You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that one,' and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those.
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When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.
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Of course I've enjoyed having the Nobel Prize, the prestige that goes along with it, the money that came with it in particular. I was the typical, still am to some extent, impecunious writer, just struggling to make ends meet, so that, nobody's going to deny that at all. In fact, if they want to give it to me a second time, I'm standing by, ready to receive it, but it's a problem, it's a real problem and then expectations and then you have monsters like Sani Abacha who come up from time to time and who would have died a happy man if he'd succeeded in hanging a Nobel Laureate for literature.
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I feel like everything I write about is a gift I need to share because there is somebody out there going through a similar thing that might need to hear it. I know music helped me a lot. And still does.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
