People Quotes
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I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about.
Dolly Parton
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We can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.
Hillary Clinton
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Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.
Sherman Alexie
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That people, even more than things, lost their boundaries and overflowed into shapelesness is what most frightened her.
Elena Ferrante
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A lot of people think I'm a comedian.
Dolly Parton
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I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.
Steven Spielberg
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I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.
Seth Godin
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I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.
Sarah Vowell
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and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business.
Sara Zarr
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I don't care about being famous or having a lot of people go, "She's really good."
Laurie Anderson
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If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
