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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bijou Phillips I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.
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  • Peace Pilgrim I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Woody Allen I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bebe Neuwirth I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Beth Ditto I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Alberto Salazar I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • B. B. King I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • B. B. King I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Alberto Giacometti I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Baz Luhrmann I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Beeban Kidron I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • John Mason Brown I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • William F. Buckley Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
    William F. Buckley
    American political commentator and journalist
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  • Carl Schurz Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
    Source: Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston (18 April 1859)
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Carl Schurz Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Bruce Coville Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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