Persons Quotes
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I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.
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I can watch a movie about a person that can make me feel depressed or remind me of something else, and then later on I'll get an idea for a song.
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For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.
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Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
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The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
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My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four "manageable" pieces, a person might tell you I look much more like a woman subdued.
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There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised by wolves, and they are the ones who make the world tick. They are the ones who keep everything functioning so the rest of us can worry about what sort of person we should be.
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I'm so not a financial person.
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I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.
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I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.
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If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.
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When I'm writing, especially when I'm writing in first person, I don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to express themselves, I just express my own approach to these things. I think most writers can never divorce themselves from their private lives and personas; they are the ones that are writing. And the more they remove themselves from their own persona, the more, perhaps, mechanical the work becomes.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.
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I was the first person to go to university from my family.
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I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.
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There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.
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I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.
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When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper does a song about shooting people on the block, and goes into a restaurant or grocery store, people grab their purses because they're afraid the person is violent. With TV and movies, people know it's okay, it's just a script.
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One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
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You have to leave room for the other person's ego.
