Marilyn Monroe Quotes
You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.
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The most modest and retiring dragon in the world, if he's as big as four cart-horses and covered with blue scales, cannot keep altogether out of the public view. And so in the village tavern of nights the fact that a real live dragon sat brooding in the cave on the Downs was naturally a subject for talk.
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It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
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I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything. Even with my last day job, I'd sleep in later and later and start coming in an hour-and-a-half late. I got fired twice before I really got fired.
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The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
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You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.
