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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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You fly. You aviate. You do everything you can to get the aircraft safely on the ground.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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You can be accessible without catering to an audience.
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If you have less weight, you have less strength.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
