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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.


Laura Dern

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JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I had no desire to be a star. I wanted to be a character actress and be able to do all kinds of part...
ELIZABETH WILSON I wanted to make a move at that turn, but I just didn't do it. I made a mistake, and she opened it u...
ISABELLA OCHICHI I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I ...
RACHEL WARD Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
RACHEL WARD Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it's being a celebrity or a singer. Quite fran...
JAKE OWEN I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, ...
KRISTIN KREUK Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It...
HILARY DUFF The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
BARBRA STREISAND Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER I wanted to become a model and an actress.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH No, I always wanted to be an actress.
AMANDA BURTON I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time m...
ELEANOR MONDALE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It ...
DAN HAWKINS Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own w...
MOHAMMED ALI BAPIR The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.
URSULA ANDRESS Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN I wanted to play a character that had clarity and knew what they wanted; I felt the distilled differ...
RYAN GOSLING I'm on a real roll. Since I left Law and Order, I've made six films. The whole reason I left Law and...
BENJAMIN BRATT I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
YOUNG JEEZY I made a personal commitment to myself that when the opportunity came it would need to be at the rig...
JAMIE POLLARD I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to ...
TYGA I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I p...
DAKOTA FANNING To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa...
TANITH LEE I always knew that the only thing I wanted to do was act, but it took me a long time to say it out l...
JESSICA RAINE I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I wanted to make a difference here.
WAYNE ELLIOTT When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.
ODEYA RUSH I saw a bunch of kids trying to do tricks, hitting rails, and I wanted to get into it. I got some tw...
GABE BLOMQUIST I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a f...
JOSH HOLLOWAY I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to...
CAREY MULLIGAN I've said this before, but after 'That '70s Show' ended, I solely wanted do films th...
MILA KUNIS I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do it.
JULIE BROWN I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
TED KOTCHEFF Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the ...
DAKOTA FANNING I always wanted to make a pop record. I'm a dancer myself, so I want to make something that peop...
SOFIA CARSON I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who w...
SARAH PAULSON I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH I made it for myself - it was a film I wanted to see.
DONNA DEITCH How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.
ZOEY DEUTCH I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and...
FLUME I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
SAMUEL BECKETT I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.
KRISTIN DAVIS I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort...
JAY-Z Wishes don’t change the world. Only actions will do that job.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I made that declaration and I didn't question it. It was clear to me what I wanted to be. My dad sai...
CESAR MILLAN I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe ag...
KHALED HOSSEINI Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I want...
JAMES ELLROY I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I ...
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LAURA SCHLESSINGER Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A me...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When ...
LAURA ROBSON I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to...
LAURA ROBSON I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way to...
LAURA ROBSON If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to f...
LAURA ROBSON I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with fre...
LAURA ROBSON Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
LAURA ROBSON If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis tha...
LAURA ROBSON I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Mi...
LAURA ROBSON There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
LAURA ROBSON Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
LAURA RIDING If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer yo...
LAURA RIDING I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad ma...
LAURA RIDING Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which...
LAURA RIDING The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The...
LAURA RIDING I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I kn...
LAURA RIDING I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thi...
LAURA RIDING To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar...
LAURA RIDING Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for...
LAURA RIDING We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of our...
LAURA RIDING I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic c...
LAURA RICKETTS My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian wome...
LAURA RICKETTS Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of a...
LAURA RICKETTS I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ...
LAURA RICKETTS When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parent...
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