Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
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People take things so seriously.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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I've never been on a date.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.
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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering. As long as you go on telling him a story, he will listen. Novelists who neglect this fundamental effect do so at their peril. They become what is known as the experimental novelist, and an experimental novel is not really a novel at all.
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
