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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If I was ever gonna remake a Peckinpah film, it would be 'Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia.' That's my favorite Peckinpah film.
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Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
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Power is the recognition of necessity.
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I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
